Taxes? 💰 Go (Historical) Figure!
Posted By RichC on January 28, 2024
An email newsletter from the Tax Foundation offered up a few interesting tax oriented tidbits.
As the story goes, Lady Godiva famously rode a horse through Coventry, Warwickshire . . . in the nude. But why did this 11th-century noblewoman choose to do such a thing? Taxes.
Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes on his people. Eventually, he told his wife she’d get her wish if she rode a horse naked through the streets in the daylight. So she did!
Charles Dickens is famous for his writing, but what about his influence on tax policy?
Dickens publicly wrote and spoke against England’s window tax and its impact on the health of the lower class. The popular author had influence and the tax was repealed shortly after in 1851.
Albert Einstein once said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
Einstein told his tax consultant that even he struggled to understand the income tax. That’s coming from the guy who came up with the theory of relativity!
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