Romania's New Tax

This story is a little old, but I saw a small article in the Metro newspaper and thought it was interesting.

Romania is currently working on a tax on those considered "self-employed." In the past, the government chose not to tax this group, but has recently decided to start looking into this option. This group includes witches, fortunetellers, and astrologers. The new law caused two different reactions from the groups being affected. Some believed the law was a good idea because it would be a legal recognition of their profession in the country.  Others are angry because the country would be taxing the already small earnings that they are making.  Some of those who are angry are even threatening to curse the government and those politicians trying to get the bill passed.

This is an interesting occurrence because one of the factors that brought about this new tax was to help prevent the groups from lying to customers about the truth of their gift. I doubt this tax will work, in this respect, because there will always be people pretending to have the gift and their only gift is knowing how to trick people out of their hard earned money.  If the con-artists cannot trick people out of their money this way, they will just find another way in time and make a different group of people suffer for their actions.

Time will only tell, if this new law will be good for the country or not.  It might help the country financially, but the other question is how will it effect the country socially?