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Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax (www.businessinsider.com)
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[โ€“] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (10 children)

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?"

Are you actually older than Bernie Sanders. Who the actual fuck buys software in a box in a store? I was born in 1980 and I've never done this.

[โ€“] Aitolda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'm a couple years younger than you, and well as a kid we did buy software from babbages or electronic boutique. I think the last time I bought software for a store was around 2010 at a micro center or something. But that was already a rare occurrence at that point. So as of today it's probably been 16 years since I've done so. I think most of the stores that actually sold software are out of business. So your point is valid.

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