Tech Companies Whine About State Mandates
There's been talk for years of state governments pushing for taxes on Internet product sales by out-of-state companies. And now you can add pressure for electronics companies to pay for recycling when their products reach end-of-life. But what the industry is about to learn is that it's actually been largely charmed when it came to government regulation. Now it may be time to recognize what many other types of businesses have: you can grimace and you can fight, but sometimes all you can do is find ways to deal with official requirements as smoothly as possible. Whining -- we've been hearing a lot of it -- only serves to tick off people and put companies squarely in the sites of government.
