There are those of us who believe that taxes are necessary and worthwhile to provide public services and to support those who are less fortunate than ourselves. And that group tends to support the aims of the EU in levelling up countries and their citizens (or in my case subjects). And, as you imply, taxes on things like carbon dioxide emission are there to promote the common good.Relax, it was a joke. You seem to think taxes just exist to annoy people.
There will not be a megapixel tax, as there is no need to incentivize people to shoot with lower resolutions. As was already pointed out, multiplying documents can be done a whole lot easier than with cameras.
Just as there is no point anymore in the recording length tax, which is why it also does not exist anymore. As far as I know, it came from the time when camcorders could be used to easily record and copy movies and TV, which certain lobbying groups have an interest in discouraging.
As for the rain water, as far as I'm aware that is a control tax to discourage people from sealing all their property and thereby increase the public cost of canalization.
The market is poor at accounting for public or long term cost, hence taxes exist to at least partially discourage certain behaviors without banning them.
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