In the famous words of Nelson Muntz: ha, ha! Too bad for you, americans!
Well, I may laugh, but even with these taxes, it will still be cheaper than in Europe…

eh, i’ve never liked new york… except the mafia… but if they start taxing anything that’s digitally downloaded, then you can say g’bye to freeware, boys and girls, NY’s done it again…

AFAIK you can’t tax something that is free, so they would not be able to tax free patches.

Hey plastic bags at supermarkets are free too.  Yet they are imposing the tax.

Within the past two weeks, they have found things to tax to cash some money for the state budget. Even soda will get a tax raise. I’m a New Yorker. =)

Yeah, so they can blow the billions of tax dollars into the arses of Mr. and Mrs. Rich after the next financial crisis.

Um…yes you can tax things that are otherwise “free.” You receive a gift? A payment from a trust fund? Payment from someone’s estate? You win something on a gameshow? Guess what, YOU’RE GOING TO GET TAXED FOR IT.  Heck, your income is taxed (in most states).

Federally, congress has the constitutional authority to establish taxes as it chooses, and every state (I can’t think of any exceptions) has similar provisions in their constitutions.  The state could tax you for the height of the grass in your front yard or for the distance you drive.  All it takes is a passage of legislation to put a tax on internet usage.

This is a very bad sign and I hope other states don’t go “WOAH THAT"S A FREAKING GREAT IDEAR!”

I live in New York, This guy is kind of a jerk. We have a quite a few of Indian reservations up here that sell cigarettes at a very low price ‘cause as of right now they don’t need to include state or federal taxes. They other day he also proposed a bill to start forcing them to charge taxes on them. This is a big issue and could create allot of problems up here.

Plastic bags - I guess they’re just trying to discourage people from using and providing them. Not wanting to sound like an eco-warrior (as I’m not) but you really don’t need plastic bags at all, they’re a massive waste of time and resources.

Funny that they keep taking so many taxes out of us, and yet I’ve yet to see them actually put our taxes to their TRUE use, fixing roads and putting money into the schools and all of that stuff, I mean, sure, they do it a little… Honestly, when they get 7.75 cents out of every dollar in Nevada and they can’t handle fixing a HUGE ripped up part in a road (That’s been there for over 10 years) I don’t see why I’m paying taxes at all. Lots of things WAY more important than a road, but that’s the point, something as simple as that not being fixed is ridiculous.

This wont get past the retail lobby, they would have to implement a stystem that tracked and charged you 1 of 50 diffrent possible rates.