Brandon Dutcher is senior vice president at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a free-market think tank.

Regulation through Taxation

One lesson from the United States’ Obamacare debacle has been that if Congress can’t get its way through regulation, it can always resort to taxes. At least that’s the Supreme Court’s view, after it declared the Affordable Care Act constitutional because it amounted to a tax, something that falls under the domain (apparently) of Congress.

So, now why all the commotion with Hungary using the same tack with the internet?