All entries tagged: tax policy
A plan to support creative work — 100 government dollars at a time
The air’s been thick this summer with new proposals for taxpayer-supported journalism, from tax exemptions to government grants to endless court battles. This sort of talk ruffles people who are rightly skeptical of government-run media.
But in 2003, as the music industry was disintegrating, lefty economist Dean Baker floated an idea for government funding of journalists, [...]
Non-profit news outlets deserve a tax exemption for ad revenue
In 2007, I wrote about a sport known as Internet hunting that had been prohibited in 33 states with a national ban pending before Congress. All that, despite the fact that no one actually hunts animals over the Internet. “It’s pretty easy to outlaw something that doesn’t exist,” said a lobbyist for the NRA, which [...]
