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”.