But now he thinks he can silence these critics by just taxing them out of existence.He wants parliament (which has a pro-Meciar majority) to rush through a four-fold increase in the value-added tax on newspapers and magazines, but with one strange exception: publications in which less than a tenth of pages carry advertisements will be exempt.
Rather than taxing them out of existence, the goal there should be to free-ride the high bar they set in terms of insurance quality and medical services offered.
A much simpler solution would be to treat the private schools as the businesses that they are, so ending their charitable status, which confers a virtual tax-free existence, and use the new tax revenue to fund a levelling-up of state schools.
So is innocent fun to be taxed out of existence?
For instance, many people thought that tobacco companies were going to be regulated and taxed out of existence in 2000.
France has been a country where an entrepreneur ready to shine shoes would have been taxed out of existence before polish hit leather.
Powerful opposition to his invention arose at once among the horse-coach interests, and, although Gurney's vehicles were not excessively heavy (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 tons), they were soon taxed out of existence.
Long after cigarettes are taxed out of existence and an entire generation views them as a cringeworthy historical oddity, old fogies will look back with a wry smile at memories of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup.
Nor did he soften much in his disdain for the fruits of commercial society: cheaper cotton and swifter railways meant nothing to him; and in his opinion, advertising, or "puffing" as he called it, deserved to be taxed out of existence.But as any economist could have pointed out, he had a lot to thank commercial society for.
Other dispensaries could simply be taxed out of existence.
"We will be taxed out of existence," said Steve De Angelo, the center's executive director.
