Richard Werner @scientificecon · 29 Aug 2026
England's insane window tax of 1696 gives us a preserved specimen of government logic: tax something visible, watch people wall it up, then call the resulting darkness a private choice. William III needed money. His solution was a property levy scaled to the number of windows in https://t.co/yb7CUWdACm
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