Wisconsin Citizens Among First in Nation to Pay TAX on Digital Downloads / Internet Use
November 14, 2009 by Capt. Karl
Bend Over and Grab the Soap, Wisconsinites! Your cost of living in The State of Wisconsin just went up unless you don’t use the Internet. Capt. Karl askes, How Long are WE Going to Take This, People of Wisconsin? Sure the Democrats caused this because they are in power right now. But a lot of Republicans in the past are just smoke and mirrors too. They say one thing and do the other. The Republicans talk of shrinking the size and scope of the Wisconsin Government, but have they actually done it when they were in power? Republicans, as a whole, sure there are some GREAT ONES, such as John Nygren and Leah Vukmir and a few others, but there are many more who are all talk and no do.
We, as the people of Wisconsin, have to get more involved. Join freedom and liberty organizations today. There are over fifty of them across our State. That is unless you want to keep on paying more and more and more in all manner of fees and taxes until you have no money left at all.
At an assembly of WI freedom and liberty groups that convened over the last weekend in Oconomowoc at the Olympia Resort, we have plans to simply walk into both Democratic and Republican party meetings and take them over. Come join in on the effort and the fun. Let’s make Wisconsin free, sovereign and prosperous again through the application of liberty and LOW taxes. We Wisconsin independent patriot groups are doing something about it. Come join us, people! Seek out a group near you so that We The People can straighten out the State of Wisconsin Government and afford to live here.
Very truly yours in FREEDOM,
Capt. Karl
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The following Report is from The honorable Assemblyman John Nygren of the 89th District:
New Digital Download Tax
On October 1, Wisconsin began taxing downloads from the internet for the first time in state history. This 5 percent sales tax does not include local or stadium taxes. This tax is estimated to take $11 million from individual’s wallets and put it in the hands of government. It was passed in the budget repair bill February of this year.
Wisconsin is one of less than half of the states in the nation that have a digital download tax. Some states even ban digital downloads from taxation altogether. Read more about Wisconsin’s tax climate in the October 1 edition of Nygren’s Notes.
Companies offering downloads online will be required to collect this tax and remit it to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. To read more about this tax use this link to the Department’s Digital Goods publication.
This tax is part of the $4.5 billion in tax and fee increases passed by the Democrats this year and will feed the over 6 percent increase in government spending passed this year as well.
