Politicians in Romania have dropped plans to tax fortune tellers and witches amid fears they will be cursed.**********
Officials drafted a law demanding the tax as well as measures to ensure that psychics were held liable for faulty predictions. But the plans were rejected by Romania's senate.
Alin Popoviciu, of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party, who proposed the change, said politicians were frightened of being cursed.
MRS NEO WONDERS: Hang on a second...
"Do the witches have to self-identify... or do you throw them in a river... and see if they float?"**********
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