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Actually the peasants were taxed to pay the nobility, not the other way around.

• blfr 8y ago
  Peasants were obligated to provide some services to the nobility, and sometimes taxed in nature, but real taxes were either from monopolies or the landowners. It's like saying that really consumers are being taxed here because they are the ultimate source of revenue for Apple. True but you can shift the distribution of this burden between consumers and Apple's owners.
• wukerplank 8y ago
  Looking at the middle class, this is still (or again) true.