Agreed. The problem is that Bitcoin wants to be taken seriously as a currency while at the same time not being subject to all the rules and regulations imposed on currencies.

This was predicted years ago by most critics but was most often just hand-waved away by advocates, most responding that it was impossible to regulate the system itself.

Well.. yeah, so you regulate assets and income of the people and companies involved. That's how it works with regular currency too.

It's a problem any currency system has (even barter!)