Personally, I think this is a great policy! Local news is incredibly important to the health of a democracy (somebody needs to show up at those city council mee

Personally, I think this is a great policy! Local news is incredibly important to the health of a democracy (somebody needs to show up at those city council meetings and report on them, and national media wont do it), but it's doing quite poorly in the modern media landscape. I do not think it is at all a problem to support it like this, and a tax on streaming seems like a great way to do it. If you are hesitant about the concept of subsidizing local press or media companies in general, it's absolutely nothing new: Sweden has been doing this for more than 50 years, and (in my opinion) it's largely been extremely beneficial to the media environment.