California Gov. Gavin Newsom said it's unfair how some people avoid paying the state sales tax when buying software.
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I am so tired of this empty vessel taking up headline space that could be focused on actual people of substance.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Gavin Newsom proposed expanding the state sales tax to ensure it covers digital prewritten software.

    As opposed to analog software, or postwritten software? I’m very curious what that is supposed to mean, and what it would be. Does Newsom know what software is?

    “As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I’m at Best Buy often,” Newsom told reporters during a news conference. “And I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren’t near a Best Buy, they’re downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?”

    I wonder what exactly Newsom has bought at Best Buy that constitutes “a lot of this prewritten software”.

  • ISOmorph@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Newsom said it isn’t fair that someone has to pay sales tax for an in-person purchase but not for a download

    Wait a minute… couldn’t employment be framed as a taxable in-person purchase of a persons time ans skill? Couldn’t this law be leveraged against AI providers?