[BitwiseFool]

Or at the very least, tax them.

[AstralStorm]

Taxation enough to matter would be tantamount to a ban, with exception of a few specialty uses.

[repiret]

Exactly. But it has the advantage that nobody at the government needs to figure out what the exceptional cases are.

[AstralStorm]

But they have to figure the amount, and it's lobbied down or out. So it won't be an effective measure.