{"id":2747,"date":"2010-08-24T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2010-08-24T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T18:52:33","slug":"no_brotherly_lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"No Brotherly Love For Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Philadelphia is <a href=\"http:\/\/citypaper.net\/articles\/2010\/08\/19\/blogging-business-privilege-tax-philadelphia\">requiring bloggers to pay $300 each for a business privilege license<\/a>, regardless of how much money that proprietor actually makes via the blog. One blogger targeted by the city reported making a total of $11 over a two-year period. Even a pinko liberal like me can recognize that this might be a case of government overreach. Just because a blog features a couple AdSense or Amazon ads doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s a profit-making machine. I&#8217;ve made a whopping $10 from this blog over the years and to label me a business would be an insult to other businesses. Municipalities are entitled to seek out new revenue streams in these cash-strapped times, but trying to milk casual bloggers probably won&#8217;t impress the tech companies that cites like Philadelphia hope to attract. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Philadelphia is requiring bloggers to pay $300 each for a business privilege license, regardless of how much money that proprietor actually makes via the blog. One blogger targeted by the city reported making a total of $11 over a two-year period. Even a pinko liberal like me can recognize that this might <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2747' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}