Washington State has given a 40 percent tax break to newspaper publishers.
How about giving a break to the entrepreneurs who will build the future of news?
Then again, it might all be show. Who’s to say any papers will have profits to tax?
: LATER: In the comments, Tim Orren explains: “Washington state’s business tax is on gross receipts, not on net income. That’s why it ranks well down the list of good states to do business, and why the tax relief to the legacy press is in fact substantial.”
