People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.
If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell.
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.
The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.