[chr1]

Government represents what the people want, just as much as a browser bundled with OS represents what people want.

That is people do not have any way to say what they want and what trade-offs they are willing to accept, they have to choose between two or three horrible bundled packages, which end up doing things only small minority wants.

As long as we do not have a way to vote for individual policies, and to trade our support for a policy with other people we are doomed to have governments that do more harm than good.

[schnischna]

Sure - but even then, how can such a policy be justified. They can not claim it is for the benefit of the people.

[sailingparrot]

> They can not claim it is for the benefit of the people

Why not? Amazon dodges taxes everywhere it operates, which directly impacts us, the citizens. But it is so convenient that people use it nonetheless.

So the government is trying to help make local shops a bit more convenient to use in response, wihch would benefit the people.

[schnischna]

Shouldn't they simply curb the (alleged) tax evasions then?

[sailingparrot]

Except there is nothing simple about that. You wouldn't have all of the europe and half of the other countries in the world complaining about it if you could just "simply curb" it.