Wanna blog? Pay 300 bucks AND taxes

This is hard to believe. Though the bloggers in this story make almost no money ($11 a year?) from ads, the city of Philadelphia wants them to buy a $300 "license" and pay taxes on their "profit," even if it's $11. How much more ridiculous can the whole idea of taxes get? It's as if greedy governments want to steal money out of people's hands before they even make it. And for what? For corruption, graft, ridiculous pensions...Read over at CityPaper:

In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the price of a business privilege license.

"The real kick in the pants is that I don't even have a full-time job, so for the city to tell me to pony up $300 for a business privilege license, pay wage tax, business privilege tax, net profits tax on a handful of money is outrageous," Bess says.