Illinois Gov. Pritzker just signed a $55.9B budget with a “social media platform fee” that taxes platforms based on how many Illinois users they have.
Bigger audience = bigger bill. Literally taxing speech.
Pritzker’s defense: make companies “pay for the mental health and educational degradation they’ve caused.”
Taxing publishers for the alleged effects of what they publish is unconstitutional censorship with a price tag.
SCOTUS has killed this type of thing before.
https://t.co/Kr3ib8uV0n
Trump spent 350 million on this.
The population of the United States is 348 million.
Trump could have given every person in the United States a million dollars and still had 2 million to spare.
Let that sink in.