June 28, 2012 10:52AM 

# You Will Now Be Required to Pay for the New York Times 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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Fretting that Americans are not sufficiently well educated about the government’s perspectives on policy and the world, the President today introduced the Affordable News act. This legislation will make *New York Times* subscriptions vastly cheaper than they are today, by taxing everyone who does not already subscribe to the paper.

Just kidding.… For now, anyway.

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