In our good city, the latest technique to extract money from citizens is raising the monthly minimums on utility services and adding monthly charges for services that we are not actually provided. We now pay $60 a month for “storm drainage” even though there are no storm drains near our home and water from the roads and neighbors runs onto our property. We pay $25 a month for water even though our usage charge is around $2: $25 a month for sewer + $5 a month for usage based on our $2 a month average water usage. We pay $35 a month for the smallest garbage can available which is madatory. Ironically, the most reasonable minimum is for electricity, which is around $20 a month with any power we use in top of that. So our minimum charges to the city with no usage whatsoever is now approximately $165 a month. Our actual usage charges are generally a fraction of this.
All of these fees have more than quadrupled in the last few years, several times the rate of infation. They are not considered taxes, and were not voted on by people or politicians. They have been assessed by government bean counters who have demonstrated clearly that these “fees” will continue to increase at whatever amount they decide.
As to the Netflix tax they will have the Netflix people collect it for them and pass it on, minus a ‘cut’ to make it acceptable to Netflix. Governments are corrupt. Corrupt governments become tyrannical.