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If you look back in history, taxes always have been for ordinary citizens. Even before modern tax systems.
by stunt 7y ago
If you look back in history, taxes always have been for ordinary citizens. Even before modern tax systems.
- Wildgoose 7y agoOnly indirectly. Governments/Rulers taxed richer individuals and they used their wealth (and/or other privileges) to extract excess money from ordinary people in order to pay those taxes. That's why I don't think records of earlier tax rates are really giving the full picture.