Creators Syndicate Fighting Los Angeles Tax Classification; Considering Move

Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist picks up on a WSJ editorial by Creators Syndicate's Rick Newcombe, who has apparently filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over a tax classification issue that may force the business to leave Los Angeles. Despite the fact that this is a 2007 decision and is about a local mechanism besides, this somehow becomes in Gardner's comments thread maybe the most achingly stupid anti-recent government rant you'll ever read in relation to a comics issue. Only Daryl Cagle and Wiley Miller seem to be speaking from a platform on planet earth, and I extend an invitation from business-friendly, democrat-leaning and projected-to-do-just-fine New Mexico if Creators were to move out of state, which, of course, there's no reason to think it would because it's a municipality problem. The WSJ discussion seems slightly more on target, although it's always a little terrifying when grown-ups cite a scenario from one of Ayn Rand's fantasy books as a potential real-world outcome. That may just be me that becomes uncomfortable, though.

Anyway, what's interesting about Newcombe's editorial is that it seems to be almost solely about how unfair this decision reversal is (and it is), and how much it may lead him to move his business (and it should), and not about how deserving Creators is for one classification over another. I'd love to read someone informed but maybe not involved write about this, because as much as I hate high taxes, hate even more high taxes against small businesses and hate maybe most of all high taxes capriciously applied, part of my initial, gut reaction was to wonder if Creators really isn't the other kind of business in the first place.
 
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