[wyager]

The first few paragraphs of this article suggest the structure is not "here's a well-reasoned economic argument for why ad taxes are utile", but "I hate Google and similar companies, so we should screw them over with punitive targeted taxes".

[t_mann]

Paul Romer has received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. While that's just an appeal to authority, it still has more substance than dismissing a long post without even having read the majority of it. I encourage you to read the whole thing before concluding that there is no well-reasoned economic argument in this text.