they operate just to suck money out of the community in one way so they can operate and help in anotherYou have described taxation . You have not explained how this is a cash grab . A 9 % tax on Netflix streaming is 75 cents a month , or $ 9 . 01 per year . Approximately 1 in 10 people have a netflix account in the United States . If we assume that the city of Pasadena follows this average it may not , then 13 , 973 people are going to be paying this tax to the city bringing city funds an increase of $ 125 , 897 . 63 per year . rounding all figures to the nearest pennyThat is not a large amount of money , but it could do a lot for your local library , or your city parks . It could employ another team of street cleaners , or a pair of oncall engineers for the water and sewer system . It could employ a pair of legal adjuncts for the city attorney so everything in city hall moves faster . It could do a lot for your city and it is not a cash grab . Less than $ 10 a year , only a little more than $ 100 , 000 raised . I don ' t agree with a Netflix tax but if you ' re calling this a cashgrab I simply have to assume you have a problem with taxation as a concept .