> Once the retail and manufacturing carnage starts to scale, the government carnage will soon follow. How can it not, when only old people pay sales tax, fewer citizens obtain their incomes from traditional easy-to-tax jobs, and large corporate taxpayers start folding like daily newspapers? Without big business, big government can't function.

A dramatic cascade to doom that conveniently assumes free and untaxed raw material. No, it's better to keep the existing power structures in place.

The whole article sounds like a call for regulation based on a fear of change. Like it's the first time the market has faced technological evolution and doesn't know how to adapt.