Ethan Buchman (🐝,🦇) @buchmanster · 08 Aug 2026
Apparently >50% of Amsterdam's revenue in the 16th c was beer taxes, and this wasn't an outlier. Beer taxes were essential to the Dutch Republic's war machine. But alas, the decline of the republic cannot ultimately be blamed on falling beer consumption
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