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How does a 5% tax on any electronic device (laptops, iPads, etc.) that allows you to access news stories via the internet sound to you? Where will the tax money go? As the Washington Times puts it…to the dead-tree version of the news.
In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories.