I don’t trust this scheme, it would be more reassuring to legislate microtransactions out of business directly rather than pretending to do so and then tout all the money that doing so would raise. Just like the cigarette sin taxes, they promise all this money is going to be raised, but simultaneously insist that people targeted by the tax would change their behavior and avoid the conditions that would encounter the tax.
“I don’t trust this scheme, it would be more reassuring to legislate microtransactions out of business directly rather than pretending to do so and then tout all the money that doing so would raise. Just like the cigarette sin taxes, they promise all this money is going to be raised, but simultaneously insist that people targeted by the tax would change their behavior and avoid the conditions that would encounter the tax.”
That’s fair. That occurred to me when I read the article...they will spend it, and the money will never arrive...and they know all that.