Which is why you boil the frog slowly. Start with a tiny tax. And automatically raise it a few percent every year. By the time anyone even notices, it's been in

Which is why you boil the frog slowly. Start with a tiny tax. And automatically raise it a few percent every year. By the time anyone even notices, it's been in place for years and the people who passed it are out of office. That's basically what they are doing here, announcing a ban that won't take effect for 23 years. A tax is just a soft ban.