Your Public Officials at Work: Philadelphia is Requiring Bloggers to Pay $300 for a Business License

Here is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard from our bureaucrats and elected officials, and that's saying something. There is a lot of competition for the title of "dumbest idea."

If you live in Philadelphia and if you write a blog, the city says you need to obtain a $300 business license plus pay taxes on any profits made. The taxes seem reasonable but a $300 business license?!?

All this is in spite of the fact that most blogs make less than $50 a year, there is no outward sign of a business at the blogger's residence, there is no increased traffic to and from the blogger's place of "business" and there is no other impact to the city.

A license? For what?

You can read more about this stupid story in the Washington Examiner at: http://tinyurl.com/2f8v3pz