• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I’m at Best Buy often," Newsom told reporters during a news conference. “And I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren’t near a Best Buy, they’re downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?”

    Are you actually older than Bernie Sanders. Who the actual fuck buys software in a box in a store? I was born in 1980 and I’ve never done this.

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      7 hours ago

      Also, what human being has ever said “prewritten software” to describe a video game or an office suite you can buy at Best Buy?

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      7 hours ago

      I’m a couple years younger than you, and well as a kid we did buy software from babbages or electronic boutique. I think the last time I bought software for a store was around 2010 at a micro center or something. But that was already a rare occurrence at that point. So as of today it’s probably been 16 years since I’ve done so. I think most of the stores that actually sold software are out of business. So your point is valid.

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      10 hours ago

      Games are software. People buy a FUCK load of games. If I go to best buy and buy a game I pay sales tax. If I buy the same game online I do not pay sales tax.

      I’m in California. This is one of the reasons I don’t buy games in stores.

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        4 hours ago

        Video game industry is literally the biggest software and entertainment industry. OP is confused.

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        4 hours ago

        Interesting, steam charges taxes on my purchases. Though I believe it is due to Canada doing digital sales tax laws a while back.