Re: Is it legal?
>I think governments can tax anything if they can collect it and the natives don't revolt.
Quite. “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing”
There does seem to be a strange belief around here, that if something hasn't previously been taxed, it would be an outrage to tax it now.
Governments need taxes to survive (and societies need governments to survive). An increasing number of once-taxable activities are becoming more difficult to collect on. Governments will have to change their focus. That means that some of the newer activities will have to bear their share of the burdon. Suck it up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
