New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax

einer writes "Facing a budget shortfall, New York State Governor David Paterson crafts a budget that taxes iPod music downloads and other 'digitally delivered entertainment services.' On the chopping block is $700 million in school aid and $3.5 billion in health care subsidies."

paying the fps

[Anonymous Coward]

Luckily there is more than enough tax payer's dosh to keep us fp'ers employed

Re:Easy Remedy for Those Looking to Avoid

[FooAtWFU]

Simple solution if you don't have someone to do this to: Head over and shop music the old-fashioned way, in New Jersey.

Re:I'm in favor of the Apt Tax

[Andr T.]

...and I thought apt tax was some kind of Debian software.

Re:Tax marijuana instead

[penguin_dance]

Legalise marijuana and tax it at $100 per ounce. Between the new tax revenue and the savings in less police and prison space we'll make $50 billion per year.

Legalize marijuana and tax it at $100 per ounce. Between the new tax revenue and loads of pot smokers, almost no one will CARE about the high taxes in New York.

There, FIXED that for you.

Re:Easy Remedy for Those Looking to Avoid

[electrictroy]

Well they're not taxing mine. If I'm forced to collect the 7% sales tax through some automated system, I will, but then I'll refund it directly back to the NY customer. And I will NOT be filing any kind of tax form with New York.

New York is welcome to send the police to Southern Pennsylvania to try to arrest me. Good luck with that. The PA Militia (read: rifle-toting rednecks) and PA National Guard does not take kindly to foreign invaders, so I'm think I'm relatively safe.

Re:On the positive side

[electrictroy]

>>>State funds are our property. If those funds are spent on health care, and your neighbor does things which burden the health care system more than others, than he is doing harm to your property by effectively taking it from you.

Yes that's true. And you have a right to deny your fat neighbor the "charity" of free healthcare.

You do NOT have the right to take away his freedom of religion.... er, to eat as many burgers as he wants. Your neighbor is not your slave to control and dictate what he can or can not eat.

Re:paying the fps

[Retric]

It's a tax on profit so it's not a cost. If your costs go up you need to increase the cost, but if your price maximizes your profit then a change in the tax rate on profits will not change the price you charge because that would reduce your profit.