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by lifeisstillgood 1355 days ago
I think it's who does the tax go to. Fine if FurnitureWorld.com pays its 500 bucks to google and NYT, but at the moment a chuck of that goes to organised crime - frankly the same people taking a slice of credit card fraud that banks see as a cost of business.

Crime and corruption play a huge part in our societies and relatively simple measures can starve them of the cash flow - from decriminalisation to de-anonymising the net. Or something