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Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by cbd1984 on Thursday May 14, 2015 @01:36AM (#9543594)
By calling them "fees" or "voluntary contributions" or similar.

Taxes are only bad if a government extracts them at gunpoint. If a non-governmental force extracts them at... well, the gun is still there, I suppose, but hidden behind a layer of "If you don't pay, we sue, and if you don't pay after the lawsuit, the guns come out"... they're morally A-OK.

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