Yes. A corollary to this is if I buy an item from the United States and ship it to Ireland (where I live), then why should I pay tax on it? The customs officia

Yes. A corollary to this is if I buy an item from the United States and ship it to Ireland (where I live), then why should I pay tax on it? The customs officials are acting as rentiers in that case. I'm saying no taxes need to be paid. I am saying that increasingly with the Net there is diminished moral rationale for some forms of taxation, leaving out the subject of the right of a government to levy taxes. I think we'll increasingly see Henry George style taxation coming back into fashion as a result of this.