out of the frying pan... (Score 1)

I'm not really sure about Wisconsin, but I don't think it's anywhere near being an important part of the growing Internet culture/business/what-have-you. Doesn't this seem like exactly what the state doesn't need? Discouraging citizens from purchasing online products with a tax on the downloads and encouraging them to find ways to not pay for the Internet and its many bounties? What's worse is that the Governor is telling them that it's logical to tax "intangible" items the same way tangible items. Should there be a tax on ideas and principles when they are exchanged? What about words? If I sit on the corner of the street, playing my beat-up old guitar for passers-by, who kindly toss me a few quarters, should they be taxed for listening to my music? No, wait... I've got it! Air is tangible, isn't it? Hmm....