A closer look
Romanian government officials officially changed their labor laws in 2011 to classify witchcraft as a taxable profession in a desperate attempt to collect more revenue. The witches were so absolutely furious about being forced to pay a sixteen percent income tax that they gathered at the Danube river to cast curses on the government using poisonous mandrake roots. It brilliantly highlights how modern bureaucratic states will absolutely squeeze pennies out of anyone, even if it means risking a literal hex being placed on the national treasury by angry citizens holding magical herbs
