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A Short Depressing History of Taxes
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The U.S. tax code is 4 million words long. Shakespeare’s entire canon is just 900,000.
Thankfully most Americans use the ‘1040’ form, which is one of the simplest tax forms, at just 200 pages long!
Taxes are so confusing that when ‘Money Magazine’ asked 50 tax professionals to completing the same tax return for the same single family, they came up with 50 different answers! [1]
Seriously, is there anything worse than taxes?
Well, yes. More taxes!
Maybe we could be like ye olde English folk who were taxed on windows, or like the Russians who were taxed on beards. Maybe we could be like the Ancient Egyptians and get paid in beer - and taxed in beer! [2]
It depends on where you stand.
Are you convinced taxes are theft on successful people? You’d argue burdensome and convoluted tax laws fund wars and line the pockets of corrupt politicians.
But maybe you’re a realist because countries can’t be funded on bake sales. How else will we fund train lines, paved roads, and hospitals?
Normalizing taxation also normalised tax rebates. That’s good news for a slave owner, but still bad news for a slave…
Conducting censuses was tricky business though.
To ease the pain, taxes were based on entire communities rather than on individual homes. Provincial governments and local magistrates oversaw taxation, but the physical collection was auctioned off.
The Publicani were tax farmers, who would outbid each other for the pleasure of being the most hated person on the planet: the taxman.
If their bid won, then they paid the state the advance of the collection. These were effectively loans where Rome was expected to pay back any interest to the Publicani.
Tax collectors got to keep the interest plus anything in excess of their bid. However, they had to do the hard work of converting everything into coinage, and be prepared to make a loss if they weren’t able to recoup their bid. [6]
To lower that risk, some Roman tax collectors colluded with local politicians to buy up large quantities of grain at low rates, which they’d hold in reserve until they could mark up the value during a food shortage.
But give it a few hundred years and citizens would push back against the tax man, which is why the policies for paying your dues got a whole lot stranger.
It’s time to count the ways tax has changed the world to understand why “The History of Tax is Weird”.
- Sources -
1. www.shoeboxed.com/blog/10-fun-facts-about-taxes/
2.www.thedailybeast.com/how-beer-ruled-the-ancient-world 3.
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4. kpbl.pl/en/the-history-oftaxation/#:~:text=Ancient%20Egypt%3A%20In%20ancient%20Egypt,constru
ctio n%20of%20pyramids%20and%20temples.
5. www.archaeology.org/issues/422-2105/features/9594-egypt-taxsystem
6. www.unrv.com/economy/roman-taxes.php
7. www.medievalists.net/2023/08/medieval-taxes/
8. www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/1066-and-the-norman
conquest/
9. www.britannica.com/topic/tallage
10. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/historymagazine/article/origins-of-england-folk-lore-robin-hood
11. oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/under-magna-carta-the-king-cannotimpose-taxes-without-the-approval-of-the-common-counsel-of-thekingdom-1215
12. muse.jhu.edu/article/901904
13. www.history.org.uk/secondary/resource/2466/the-great-revolt-of1381
14. www.britannica.com/event/Peasants-Revolt
15. www.history.com/topics/renaissance/renaissance
16. www.parliament.uk/about/livingheritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/tyne-and-wear-case-study/about-the-group/housing/window-tax/
17. daily.jstor.org/peter-the-greats-beard-tax/
18. www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produce-journal/why-the-pineapple-was
once-a-symbol-of-wealth/180527.article
19. www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party 20.
www.britannica.com/story/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let
them-eat-cake
21. www.worldhistory.org/Storming_of_the_Bastille/
22. taxfoundation.org/taxedu/educational-resources/primer-history-of
taxes/
23. www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private
lives/taxation/overview/incometaxbolished/
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  • @margitandersson
    @margitandersson 4 хвилини тому

    Thanks God..🙏❤️🙏🇸🇪🤝

  • @MrApw2011
    @MrApw2011 2 години тому

    I don't understand why we cater to people's outrage. It is polarization that causes for popularity. We know you can't please all the people all the time so we decided we'll please none of them much of the time?

  • @Donkeyearsa
    @Donkeyearsa 10 годин тому

    Productivity increased when people started to work from home. What happened was low and middle management saw their jobs where not relevant and could see the writing on the wall that they could be fired. They where the ones who where forcing people to return to the office and to help them they would blow smoke up the ass of upper management when questioned.

  • @Donkeyearsa
    @Donkeyearsa 10 годин тому

    I want soylent green, can I get some? Soylent green is all about people.

  • @bharath2508
    @bharath2508 19 годин тому

    An Australian achieving this is commendable.

  • @raheelrehmatbc
    @raheelrehmatbc 20 годин тому

    😊

  • @tedadams1324
    @tedadams1324 День тому

    Taxation is theft.

  • @atomdemise27
    @atomdemise27 День тому

    Do you have Pop-screen?

  • @atomdemise27
    @atomdemise27 День тому

    Couldn’t help, but notice our narrator said “the evil, communist Mao” near the end of this video aren’t you supposed to take some kind of journalistic neutrality when narrating? However, this is a really good channel.

  • @mpaso111
    @mpaso111 День тому

    Broski thank you for the great content that you make, I know for a fact that you are helping to build a much more financial savy generation. Thank you for existing man, I love hearing your voice.

  • @surething119
    @surething119 День тому

    commies always make a blunder anyway

  • @snn2913
    @snn2913 2 дні тому

    What about the Catholic Church isn't it the same 😊?!

  • @rhythmandacoustics
    @rhythmandacoustics 2 дні тому

    Gambler like Bill Hwang.

  • @SaxonSpooner
    @SaxonSpooner 2 дні тому

    Is it just me or does Paul Revere look like Jack Black?

  • @KarenLopez-in5ih
    @KarenLopez-in5ih 2 дні тому

    This how men must use pc skills to get rich

  • @aw758
    @aw758 2 дні тому

    fake narrative

  • @comicdreamz
    @comicdreamz 2 дні тому

    You can like a comment by double tapping a comment but you can reply to a comment by triple tapping. Subscribe for more and if it works 😊

  • @ddbb6618
    @ddbb6618 2 дні тому

    It's quite common to see bricked up windows in properties dating from the UK's window tax period, 1697-1851. Quite a few of these are a result of tax avoidance of the window tax. I believe the tax was known as 'Daylight robbery'

  • @youreatowel9705
    @youreatowel9705 2 дні тому

    Some day it will go back to pointy rocks straight sticks and sinew

  • @CSDragon
    @CSDragon 2 дні тому

    kai oto 💀

  • @therankingworld7627
    @therankingworld7627 3 дні тому

    thats a weird looking ancient egyptian

  • @MaulikParmar210
    @MaulikParmar210 3 дні тому

    "You don't need to study for 8 to 10hrs like doctors" to enter tech market is the biggest lie you'll ever tell to sell without mentioning how many people survive after 1 or 2 years in industry. Thats an insult similar to "You don't need an economics degree to understand small details of the economy" Many do sell this dream, it's just like stock gambling if you don't know what you're doing. All these professions do require constant improvement and constant learning and no such course can benefit in real world problem solving tasks. The barrier to entry is already high in many fields but the ignorance of the people has no low :)

  • @Mrainey
    @Mrainey 3 дні тому

    History is written by the Victor

  • @Kingofrojas
    @Kingofrojas 3 дні тому

    Best video❤❤❤

  • @bobSeigar
    @bobSeigar 3 дні тому

    "Here's how History Works!" "Yeah so, the first taxes were invented and recorded in 6,000 B.C....." Well, that does truly sum up the "quality" of information here.

  • @reginaldmcnab3265
    @reginaldmcnab3265 3 дні тому

    The same way bush and his hunch men visited Iraq after invading it! Unannounced

  • @mplewp
    @mplewp 3 дні тому

    GE without jack W probably would have invented nuclear fusion by this time

  • @lukasjay1783
    @lukasjay1783 3 дні тому

    George Lucas is a lifelong filmography idiot that got lucky. Now Disney’s vandalized his ghosts author’s legacy and everyone tries to pretend like he was a good Stuart of Star Wars and that wasn’t true either. He hired so many ghost authors he didn’t realize where he’d taken his story either and he was trying to manage something that he’d already been given the recipe for the transaction of plagiarism. By the time he realized he needed to make himself look busy he’d turned chubaca into jar jar and couldn’t state a sentence without cheese.

  • @Stroud_Diggs
    @Stroud_Diggs 3 дні тому

    He doesn’t defecate😂

  • @stephendallas9709
    @stephendallas9709 3 дні тому

    At the 2:04 mark you said "1897" but the video graphic reads "1987"

  • @philipjones3599
    @philipjones3599 3 дні тому

    Could have put the Kenya tax protests in the video would have fit very well into this😢.

  • @shockcat5988
    @shockcat5988 4 дні тому

    It’s always the Austrian accent that gets people hooked.

  • @dowjones4573
    @dowjones4573 4 дні тому

    Now we just need How the Future Works

  • @redleo380
    @redleo380 4 дні тому

    Who decided who were the elites? Authority is a perceived concept...who made all this crap up?

  • @redleo380
    @redleo380 4 дні тому

    Tax is socialism.

  • @acctsys
    @acctsys 4 дні тому

    Tax is extortion. Minimize government.

  • @luddity
    @luddity 4 дні тому

    For men, the answer may be yes. For women, the answer is no.

  • @abdelkarim8381
    @abdelkarim8381 4 дні тому

    Do you know that in Islam, taxes are mostly HARAM? I kid you not There's only 3: 1- Jizya, a tax paid by non-muslims, to show their submission and so they won't have to fight in the army. (FYI, it was much lower than what the Byzantines and Persians demanded) 2- Zakat: If you can call it a tax, that is. It's more like mandatory charity paid only by Muslims. 3- Kharaj: A tax paid by people who owned land before Muslims concurred it so they'll get to keep their land. Other than that, taxes are Haram. And that's a great thing because this way, the ruler can't keep manipulating taxes and siphoning the wealth of the people, strengthening the state, while weakening them.

  • @zhara9741
    @zhara9741 4 дні тому

    I’m an American looking for a truly unbiased/objective documentary of saddam’s reign. If you have suggestions, that would be appreciated. I prefer to be educated, not indoctrinated.

  • @seneca983
    @seneca983 4 дні тому

    17:27 Who's that guy?

  • @anthonyminimum
    @anthonyminimum 4 дні тому

    11:24 I guess this 100+ year old film didn’t include enough continuity. There’s a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in what’s supposed to be either an 18th or 19th century setting

  • @1wun1
    @1wun1 4 дні тому

    In agrarian societies peasants didn't need roads, so taxing them was stealing.

  • @elkinjohn
    @elkinjohn 4 дні тому

    You forgot inflation which is a tax for holding a specific currency. I of course believe taxation is theft... Here is a list of less-coercive ways governments use to raise revenue; docs.google.com/document/d/1V9IuqP0UfMOgUw1JHp00zu0al82ucTNVxhOD0r4c7ro/edit?usp=sharing

  • @raymondkhessel
    @raymondkhessel 5 днів тому

    Listen to his phone call when he orders pants

  • @Hendrix-kq8mq
    @Hendrix-kq8mq 5 днів тому

    The British are cumming! The british are cumming!

  • @mohanvardaan
    @mohanvardaan 5 днів тому

    Who was in Paris everyone asked. We got the answer years later when Kanye dropped his banger 🙏🙏🔥

  • @Thefinancegirlie
    @Thefinancegirlie 5 днів тому

    Nah the transatlantic slave trade was uniquely heinous. That’s a well researched fact.

  • @RattZ
    @RattZ 5 днів тому

    Taxi❌ Ixat✅

  • @humboldtoregonian9400
    @humboldtoregonian9400 5 днів тому

    If I'm more educated with money and therefore should be held responsible for my own retirement and insurance, why do I still have to pay the government and other systems for this service?

  • @coreyh55
    @coreyh55 5 днів тому

    i did amway for a bit. i didnt loose money. but i was in it for tewo years and walked away when the excitment died down. lol