Great job Stephen for showing yet another government who's political oligarchs oppress their Citizens through taxation and regulation. It is the failure of all governments yet created by man, yet most continue to be complicite in one failed experiment after another placing the governments call for the redistribution of wealth through taxation and regualtion above the protection of private property and individual rights. Taxation is theft, coersion and extortion and until we call for what it is and understand its unjust negative ramifications, the majority will be continuously placed into poverty and oppressed by the oligarchy.  Thinking that the majority can defeat this abuse by a democracy or democratic republic is an illusion well documented throughout history.  Politics is and always has been a distraction to divert the majorities attention away for real solutions.  When enough people wake up to that realty, perhaps we can find the necessary free market social solutions to creating a civil society and world.