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>>matthe+(OP)
I worry about "tax thing I don't like" policies as then government is dependent on that revenue and now ... you to some extent want that activity to occur otherwise you've got budget issues. Now what is the incentive? Do you adjust taxes to eliminate it or does the state try to keep that revenue stream going?

I also wonder if somehow we're trying to seriously reduce advertising what that does to land of the internet where the users of the internet seem to choose / want "free" advertising based products. I'm not convinced folks just suddenly pay and upending that entire economy maybe a serious net negative.

>>duxup+md
> you to some extent want that activity to occur otherwise you've got budget issues. Now what is the incentive?

I was just talking with some friends recently about an instance of this: distilling, which is still federally illegal in the US for the primary reason that it provides a lot of tax income if you charge for licenses and tax sales, which is incredibly frustrating because it's easy and safe to make yourself high-quality liquors at a fraction of the price that you'd pay at the store and have a fun hobby to boot.

(pedants: please don't bring up safety issues - it's trivial to realize with five minutes and internet access that distilling isn't significantly less safe than many other unregulated activities in the world as a whole)

>>throw1+Eg
Forget about the safety issues of the distilling itself (and the risks of accidentally creating methanol), I'd be far more concerned with the safety and public-health issues of cheap, unregulated access to high-proof alcohol.