The U.S. is not a business friendly country.

Once again I get reminded that the U.S. is not a business friendly country. One of the few payment systems we have been using that makes it possible to do business with eastern Europe is e-gold. It is U.S. based and because of that is now being punished with a 25% tax on deposits according to our eastern Europe partners. It appears that the company has been under attack by the U.S. government, using the usual false accusations that its enemies are being affiliated with child pornography and/or terrorism. This is expected, since e-gold transactions could not be controlled by the U.S. government and everything that works too well by itself is being thwarted or forbidden by the government. They want us all to work for mega corporations that can be controlled.

Read the e-gold statment about this debacle here.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan