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The number of Americans who say they watch cable or satellite television plunged from 76% in 2015 to 56% in 2021, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults. (The Pew Charitable Trusts funds the center and Stateline.) Of those cord-cutters, 71% say they dropped their cable or satellite service because they can get the content they want via streaming services.
To replace the lost revenue, at least 33 of the 45 states with a general sales tax (plus the District of Columbia) have folded streaming services into their existing sales tax structures, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of two, nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tanks. These states tax subscriptions to digital streaming services the same way they slap a sales tax on tickets to movies or concerts.
Gandurski said in a phone interview that when the discussion began in June 2020 about expanding the amusement tax, the thinking was at the time that the city was predicted to lose a substantial amount of entertainment tax due to COVID. We could align with Chicago and recoup some of the revenue lost due to COVID.
Customers who cut the cord to consume their video through streaming services still rely on fiber-optic cable that lies beneath city streets to connect them to the internet. Because streaming services use that broadband infrastructure, many cities argue, they should pay the franchise fees that cable companies pay.
Cities and towns in at least 13 states have sued streaming video giants Netflix and Hulu seeking compensation. Georgia, Indiana and Missouri cities have won preliminary legal victories, but judges dismissed similar lawsuits in Arkansas, California, Nevada and Texas.
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Maine lawmakers are plodding toward a mid-April adjournment with a slew of contentious issues to resolve, including gun safety and a new spending plan. Meanwhile, a divided Congress continues its obsession with the November election in its quest for historically unproductive governance.
Lawmakers are in the middle of the most intensive discussion of gun laws in Maine in years, spurred by the mass shooting in October that left 18 dead. That debate is occurring at the same time that an independent commission is examining the events leading up to the Lewiston tragedy and the ensuing manhunt for the shooter.
Mills has also proposed requiring any private gun sellers who advertise a firearm in print or online to conduct a background check on would-be buyers. That is aimed at closing what gun safety groups insist is a gaping legal loophole that feeds a thriving, unregulated gun marketplace in Maine. Background checks would not be required for sales or transfers among family or friends.
Meanwhile, the special commission investigating the Lewiston shootings is expected to issue an interim report by April 1 in order to give lawmakers time to consider any policy proposals. The commission is then expected to hold additional public meetings before issuing a more comprehensive report later this year.
This week, legislative Republicans criticized the initiative as a cash grab amid a state revenue surplus. The tax has been introduced two previous times, including once by former Republican Gov. Paul LePage.
For music and television, that shift has resulted in a sharp pivot from cable television services and brick and mortar sales of albums, respectively. According to the Leichtman Research Group, major cable providers like Spectrum and Comcast lost 1.7 million subscribers just in the second quarter of 2023 while streaming subscriptions to cable TV replacements like YouTube TV continued to trend upward.
Meanwhile, physical music album sales accounted for just 11% of all sales in 2023, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. And that 11% was boosted by a resurgence in the sale of vinyl albums, which are, objectively, awesome (BTW -- The American Enterprise Institute has a fun visualization using RIAA sales data where you can watch sales of 8-track cassettes take a justifiable dive into oblivion while vinyl albums rise heroically after a sustained beatdown by CDs).
It has been roughly two weeks since 2nd District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, unveiled the Defending Borders, Defending Democracy Act, a multipronged bill that would provide U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan while also implementing an array of changes to slow the influx of migrants at the southern border.
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