When did tax become the answer to everything?

The_White_Horse

any ill with the world, country, planet, whatever, seems it can always be fixed with more tax.

Mr._Pricklepants

I don't know if you would agree TWH, but I blame the leftie.

The_White_Horse

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

I don't know if you would agree TWH, but I blame the leftie.

now you mention it...

look at the new "fizzy drink tax". can't they think of a solution to any problem that doesn't involve taking more money out of my pocket???

grizzly1911

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

I don't know if you would agree TWH, but I blame the leftie.

you are naughty.

I think you wil find it wa sthe Romans, Egyptians and Greeks(!!!!!!).

Two certainties in life, death and taxes rising.

If they could they would tax air. Wonder what they will tax in the hydrogen fuel cell?



EGYPT

During one period the scribes imposed a tax on cooking oil. To insure that citizens were not avoiding the cooking oil tax scribes would audit households to insure that appropriate amounts of cooking oil were consumed and that citizens were not using leavings generated by other cooking processes as a substitute for the taxed oil.

GREECE1

In times of war the Athenians imposed a tax referred to as eisphora........

Athenians imposed a monthly poll tax on foreigners, people who did not have both an Athenian Mother and Father, of one drachma for men and a half drachma for women. The tax was referred to as metoikion

ROMAN EMPIRE

The earliest taxes in Rome were customs duties on imports and exports called portoria.1
Caesar Augustus instituted an inheritance tax to provide retirement funds for the military. The tax was 5 percent on all inheritances except gifts to children and spouses. The English and Dutch referred to the inheritance tax of Augustus in developing their own inheritance taxes.
During the time of Julius Caesar a 1 percent sales tax was imposed. During the time of Caesar Augustus the sales tax was 4 percent for slaves and 1 percent for everything else.1




http://www.taxworld.org/History/TaxHistory.htm

BobQ

grizzly1911 wrote: »

you are naughty.

I think you wil find it wa sthe Romans, Egyptians and Greeks(!!!!!!).

Two certainties in life, death and taxes rising.

If they could they would tax air. Wonder what they will tax in the hydrogen fuel cell?



EGYPT

During one period the scribes imposed a tax on cooking oil. To insure that citizens were not avoiding the cooking oil tax scribes would audit households to insure that appropriate amounts of cooking oil were consumed and that citizens were not using leavings generated by other cooking processes as a substitute for the taxed oil.

GREECE1

In times of war the Athenians imposed a tax referred to as eisphora........

Athenians imposed a monthly poll tax on foreigners, people who did not have both an Athenian Mother and Father, of one drachma for men and a half drachma for women. The tax was referred to as metoikion

ROMAN EMPIRE

The earliest taxes in Rome were customs duties on imports and exports called portoria.1

Caesar Augustus instituted an inheritance tax to provide retirement funds for the military. The tax was 5 percent on all inheritances except gifts to children and spouses. The English and Dutch referred to the inheritance tax of Augustus in developing their own inheritance taxes.
During the time of Julius Caesar a 1 percent sales tax was imposed. During the time of Caesar Augustus the sales tax was 4 percent for slaves and 1 percent for everything else.1




http://www.taxworld.org/History/TaxHistory.htm

I may be wrong TWH, Prickles but I think that these Governments would not count as being dominated by lefties?

Neither would the Tory Governments which first introduced income tax to fund its plans for world domination.

Norfolk_Jim

They should put a tax on sex, then lots of people would be eager to boast about just how much tax they are paying.