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Yeah I'm skeptical as well
If the assertion is;
then a new law yet to be implemented is not evidence to the contrary.
Just like tax laws, it's extraordinarily difficult to legislate the behavior of very wealthy people because they have more resources with which to develop work arounds than the regulators have to restrict them.
Exactly.
And I see it in my country that forging a law to restrict something is very difficult to push through cause the danger that somebody will fight it into the highest court is high and then the law does not get permitted.
Its like an uphill battle.