Browsing for a new personal computer that allows you to watch and record television shows? Or how ab...
Browsing for a new personal computer that allows you to watch and record television shows? Or how about a top of the range mobile phone you can plug into broadband networks? Then watch out. In much of Europe, you might be about to commit a criminal offence. In countries such as Germany, the UK and Sweden, governments are imposing taxes on the most up to date computers and cell phones. Even by the standards of overregulated, overtaxed Europe, that is crazy. The most elementary economics course teaches that if you tax something, you reduce the demand for it. Either Europe turns itself int...
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