> Just tax the thing you don't like and in a democracy, this can't happen because those being taxed have political power to prevent it, or dilute it. Therefore

> Just tax the thing you don't like and in a democracy, this can't happen because those being taxed have political power to prevent it, or dilute it. Therefore, a proxy gets taxed indirectly, which also dilutes the said tax to more constituents, thus spreading it out thinly enough to not "cause" the ruckus in said group of constituents.