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The most absurd taxes in the history of mankind
"Soon we will be to pay for the air" - complain grandmother after having overcome the housing department. But the inhabitants of ancient Byzantium paid for the air and nothing - not complained. Why not complained? Because somewhere near people pay taxes for his own shadow. How absurd is still different tax authorities in different centuries?
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