We’ll find out more Wednesday when a General Assembly study committee digs into the issue of a possible tax on songs, books, and other computer downloads.

As Carolina Journal’s Mitch Kokai describes in today’s CJ Exclusive, the idea has gained traction in several states and estimates put North Carolina’s potential take at $3.7 million.

Rep. Jennifer Weiss (D-Wake) sees it this way:

“I just think in terms of our retail merchants and folks with bricks and mortar [stores], they’re being burdened in a way that other retailers are not because of the way the world has changed,” said Rep. Jennifer Weiss, D-Wake, during the Jan. 7 meeting of the General Assembly’s Revenue Laws Study Committee. “We are facing an ever-shrinking tax base, and we need to kind of get with the 21st century.”