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To: Slyfox

Oh brother—now they are going to try to ban windows.

Which reminds me—supposedly in the Middle Ages there was a feudal lord that decided the best way to have a wealth tax and tax the rich was to tax people based on how many windows they had in their homes.

Within a decade, so it is said, the village was the only one in Europe with no windows on any houses!


42 posted on 01/17/2021 5:57:34 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: cgbg

That’s a pretty good catch. I seem to remember somewhere in Europe they taxed people by how many rooms they had and I think they even counted a closet as a room. If my memory is correct.


55 posted on 01/17/2021 6:31:18 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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