They should tax ads then. Since that's the source of money that fuels everything they should tax at the source.
Make the companies report how many ads they run, how much they get paid on that and tax that.
You won't catch them all initially but you'll catch some and then you can gradually tighten the system.
And this will go far enough from the consumer that he might actually not notice. Ad budgets of companies are very flexible and if you hit all of them, they'll all just reduce their ad spending at no harm to anyone.
They should tax ads then. Since that's the source of money that fuels everything they should tax at the source.
Make the companies report how many ads they run, how much they get paid on that and tax that.
You won't catch them all initially but you'll catch some and then you can gradually tighten the system.
And this will go far enough from the consumer that he might actually not notice. Ad budgets of companies are very flexible and if you hit all of them, they'll all just reduce their ad spending at no harm to anyone.