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Better ways to support authors, he suggests, would be "to distribute tax funds to authors based on the cube root of each author's popularity"
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The writer lost all credibility with me at this part.
Why don't people get it? Tax money is just our money collected by the government and redistributed. So for this to work, we either need another tax for books or we need to take existing tax money away from something else like schools, health care, etc. to pay authors like Stephen King.
Our existing system is better in that Stephen King fans pay him directly.