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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Once again, to reiterate, the proper way to go about this is to price e-work lower than paperworks, not by taxing paperworks. A tax on paper is a silly idea.
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This would require that the publishers voluntarily price it this way though.
In the US they do not have state sales tax on ebooks so in effect the tax on pbooks is already higher. I think they could probably even make it higher if they were really serious about environmental conservation.