Virtual World, Real Taxation

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Leave it to your friends in government to figure out ways to take your money. In previous posts, I talked about the pretend worlds of "Second Life" and "Entropia Universe". As in real life, they have an economy of buying and selling goods and services. In fact, a true model of laissez faire capitalism at the moment. But there are those who are studying the idea of attacking that pretend money with real taxation. Of course, they'll want to take your real money for their coffers ...