Sorcery VS Rectum

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In the UK you are required to register your rectum at birth. The information is stored on an ID card in Whitehall. When you start earning a wage above the official poverty line, a Rectum Tax is applied to your wages on a Pay As You Go basis - the self employed have to calculate their own.

If at any point in the future you need a transplant, the money is taken out of this fund to do it. The poor get theirs free, the rich pay for it privately and the middle class have to wait for 6 months while all the paperwork is checked to make sure they have earned enough to cover the cost of the operation. Unless they submit the claim Out Of Hours, in which case they can only be operated on on the last day of any given month.

Seems perfectly fair and simple to me, and I don't understand why this isn't the model adopted by the US.

It is entirely different to being held to ransom by a magic wand. The first scenario is one you can plan for, whether by saving money yourself or committing to higher taxes. The second is one where someone without morals has been allowed to get hold of a dangerous magical item. Wands don't ruin arses, people do.