>Who else would you have tariffs on? Yourself? You laugh, but that was a fairly common practice in some places. Pre-revolutionary France was fairly notorious

>Who else would you have tariffs on? Yourself? You laugh, but that was a fairly common practice in some places. Pre-revolutionary France was fairly notorious for it's internal taxes if you crossed provincial borders. Salt and bread were the most common items, if I remember correctly. The idea of a cohesive nation-state with an internally free market is pretty new.