G'day Everyone!
The City of Brotherly Love is no longer a Brotherly Love any more. Especially for Bloggers!
If you live in Philadelphia, PA and you run a blog on your website, God forbid you should be selling or advertising something on your webpage!
Here's what's being said: http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/24/technology/philadelphia_blogger_tax/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin
and the source of the battle: http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/08/19/blogging-business-privilege-tax-philadelphia
A friend of mine who lives in Philadelphia, who asked not be named here, has gotten together with a group of bloggers and they are consulting with a lawyer. He has said this to me: " The State of Pennsylvania's budget has become a major mess in this state of economics happening in our nation's worst time. Since Philadelphia was expecting to get some state money to fill their budget gaps, they are not getting anything because of the budget mess created by our out-going Gov. Ed Rendell. Now Philadelphia is so hard up for cash, they're hitting all the bloggers they can get their hands on. If that law passes this September, it'll either go into a full court battle mode (which will cost the city money to defend themselves) or we're all going to move OUTSIDE of Philadelphia's taxing reach.".
In other words: this is becoming a testing ground by Philadelphia to see how much money they can get off people who write for the fun of it as well as for those who do blog and sell on the 'net. Because if Philadelphia gets successful in this, the blog world, even the deaf blog world, will have to consider the end of their sites in order to avoid being "taxed" for the right to blog. This battle will be closely watched.
Philadelphia just opened up a big blog war for itself. So who will win in the end?
Philadelphia for the money from bloggers or the bloggers themselves?
I consider George Orwell's time is here now.
Semper FI.
2 comments:
Philly might as well tax the
newspapers to make extra money
because part of blogging is
writing letters to the Editor
of the newspaper.
This sounds like taking away the
Freedom of Speech by taxing us for
what is on our mind to share with
people. Blogging is good to share
thoughts. But to tax on that? Why
don't Philly Government tax itself
for giving new ideas for the city?
It seems like Philly is filling
for bankruptcy because it is
running out of money.
Philly is silly!
~BBF
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