Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts That Built America by Charles Adams

Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts That Built America

Charles Adams

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In 1798, after Congress had passed its first direct tax on houses, the government cooked up a scheme to count and measure the windows on every taxpayer's house, in order to calculate how much to charge. But German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania ...

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