History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one wanted to mess with them thus they used that reputation to their advantage. Sure, they could have kept up all that pillaging, but it\u2019s tiring and generally thankless work. Better to have someone pay you to simply not do it. But who would do such a thing? Everyone, for generations, that\u2019s who.<\/p>\n
Vikings first received payment to just go away when they attacked Paris back in 845. Happy that they could get ill gotten booty without suffering through the annoyance of hacking apart snooty, Dark Ages Frenchmen, the Vikings took their money and left. For a while. In 991, they returned and decided to sack part of England, but King Aethelred handed over 10,000 pounds worth of silver, which even to this day can ward off nearly any Norwegian. It was also around this time, after their second pay off, the Vikings realized the rest of Europe was peopled by rich idiots and there was nothing stopping them from threatening to attack whenever they needed money for wenches and grog.<\/p>\n
More payments were made to the Vikings in 1002, 1007, 1012 and 1016. Payments up to this point totaled over 136,000 pounds of silver, enough to fund nearly one season for the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
In time, the tax became a useful tool to pay for whatever stuff the King needed money for, long after Vikings had retired to a paradise of non-bathing and obesity in some frigid retreat free from pillaging and Grendels. William the Conqueror used the tax to pay for other wars and it\u2019s likely most people went ahead with paying it out of fear that, even if it seemed suspicious, better than waking up with an angry Viking kicking the heck out of you.<\/p>\n
Beards<\/h3>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q4\/q46\/q467\/q4671\/q4671183_1612287_373_3477424864_0cb8df4abd.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" "\\"Creative")
<\/a>ed7929<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nObviously some governments really just needed money and didn\u2019t particularly care how foolish they looked in their attempts to get it. Henry VIII, not particularly known as the coolest head in history to begin with, decided to charge a beard tax on his people back in 1535. He had his own beard that was likely living tax free up in the palace, but the common man was required to pay out if he wasn\u2019t in the mood for shaving every day. And given that this was 1535, your average Gillette razor was probably just a sharp piece of metal and shaving cream was your own panic sweat as you tried not to nick an artery.<\/p>\n
Henry\u2019s daughter brought the beard tax back during her reign and had it vary depending on the age and status of the man wearing the beard. Presumably old, poor people with excellent Santa Claus beards were getting hit the worst while young knights in soul patches were just paying pocket change.<\/p>\n
And because a good idea is timeless, in the early 1700s in Russia, Tsar Peter I introduced his own beard tax, meaning the Russian people either had to pay up or invest in scarves to make it through the winters. <\/p>\n
Everything <\/h3>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q4\/q46\/q467\/q4671\/q4671183_1612287_593_dump1\"\/)
<\/div>\nSpeaking of Tsar Peter, it\u2019s worth noting he didn\u2019t stop at beards. Whether through greed or insanity, Peter really wanted as much money as he could get his hands on, so he went about taxing pretty much everything that people would conceivably have handy. He put a tax on beehives to keep those honey barons in check, he taxed horse collars so the people who weren\u2019t walking wouldn\u2019t get a free ride, hats got taxed, boots, basements, chimneys, food, clothing and anyone who was born a male faced a tax. And because why stop there, births in general were also taxed, along with marriages and burial of the dead. And if all you were doing was standing still, naked, in the middle of nowhere, you still owed a tax for something because a soul tax was introduced in 1718. And if you believed you had no soul and were an atheist, then you owed a religious dissenter tax.<\/p>\n
Illegal Drugs <\/h3>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q4\/q46\/q467\/q4671\/q4671183_1612287_662_91531710_e6294277b8.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\n<\/a>TedsBlog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nProbably under the theory that anyone\u2019s worth a try, no less than 10 states have tried to place a tax on narcotics. Yes, the very principle of the tax is kind of mind blowing, but states like Kansas decided it couldn\u2019t hurt. There, dealers are expected to purchase tax stamps to place on the product and they promise to take no personal information from the dug dealers when they show up to purchase the stamps.<\/p>\n
Though it sounds pretty foolish on the surface, it\u2019s actually a crafty ploy by the government to nab drug dealers during prosecution, as anyone who doesn\u2019t purchase the stamps can also be charged with tax evasion, taking them down in an Al Capone reign of glory.<\/p>\n
Long Distance Tax <\/h3>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q4\/q46\/q467\/q4671\/q4671183_1612287_811_4061301029_9b2350ca8e.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\n<\/a>~ Maryam ~<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFew people realize it but from 1898 until 2006, if you had a phone, you were funding the Spanish American war. For over 100 years, there was a 3% excise tax on long distance calls, the purpose of which was to help fund a war which took place between April and August of 1898. As time went on, events like the First World War and the Depression continued to put a strain on the American economy, so the government kept the tax in place. Years became decades and finally, in 2006, someone put a stop to a tax that had milked the populace for billions. In fact, it was determined that $15 billion should be refunded to tax payers.<\/p>\n
Flushing Tax <\/h3>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q4\/q46\/q467\/q4671\/q4671183_1612287_877_1506403301_37d07040d5.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\n<\/a>Roger Saunders<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn 2005, Maryland introduced a $30 tax for flushing your toilet. The plan was to put the money into repairing sewage treatment plants by effectively giving everyone in the state a pay toilet. But if there\u2019s one thing people don\u2019t like it\u2019s when the government imposes an intrusive tax that has a built in \u201cno way out\u201d clause, as very few of us are accustomed to going to the washroom outdoors these days.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers were all hit, regardless of whether they had septic systems and private water sources or they were hooked up to the city, meaning many thousands of angry phone calls had to be fielded but since the plan was to pull in nearly $70 million in tax revenue, the state government wasn\u2019t about to let this one go and most people who protested ended up paying eventually.![](\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/-9sfq3leRBo\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s just a few of the more bizarre taxes that have been levied over the years; Danegeld History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n<\/a>ed7929<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nObviously some governments really just needed money and didn\u2019t particularly care how foolish they looked in their attempts to get it. Henry VIII, not particularly known as the coolest head in history to begin with, decided to charge a beard tax on his people back in 1535. He had his own beard that was likely living tax free up in the palace, but the common man was required to pay out if he wasn\u2019t in the mood for shaving every day. And given that this was 1535, your average Gillette razor was probably just a sharp piece of metal and shaving cream was your own panic sweat as you tried not to nick an artery.<\/p>\n
Henry\u2019s daughter brought the beard tax back during her reign and had it vary depending on the age and status of the man wearing the beard. Presumably old, poor people with excellent Santa Claus beards were getting hit the worst while young knights in soul patches were just paying pocket change.<\/p>\n
And because a good idea is timeless, in the early 1700s in Russia, Tsar Peter I introduced his own beard tax, meaning the Russian people either had to pay up or invest in scarves to make it through the winters. <\/p>\n
Everything <\/h3>\n<\/div>\nSpeaking of Tsar Peter, it\u2019s worth noting he didn\u2019t stop at beards. Whether through greed or insanity, Peter really wanted as much money as he could get his hands on, so he went about taxing pretty much everything that people would conceivably have handy. He put a tax on beehives to keep those honey barons in check, he taxed horse collars so the people who weren\u2019t walking wouldn\u2019t get a free ride, hats got taxed, boots, basements, chimneys, food, clothing and anyone who was born a male faced a tax. And because why stop there, births in general were also taxed, along with marriages and burial of the dead. And if all you were doing was standing still, naked, in the middle of nowhere, you still owed a tax for something because a soul tax was introduced in 1718. And if you believed you had no soul and were an atheist, then you owed a religious dissenter tax.<\/p>\n
Illegal Drugs <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>TedsBlog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nProbably under the theory that anyone\u2019s worth a try, no less than 10 states have tried to place a tax on narcotics. Yes, the very principle of the tax is kind of mind blowing, but states like Kansas decided it couldn\u2019t hurt. There, dealers are expected to purchase tax stamps to place on the product and they promise to take no personal information from the dug dealers when they show up to purchase the stamps.<\/p>\n
Though it sounds pretty foolish on the surface, it\u2019s actually a crafty ploy by the government to nab drug dealers during prosecution, as anyone who doesn\u2019t purchase the stamps can also be charged with tax evasion, taking them down in an Al Capone reign of glory.<\/p>\n
Long Distance Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>~ Maryam ~<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFew people realize it but from 1898 until 2006, if you had a phone, you were funding the Spanish American war. For over 100 years, there was a 3% excise tax on long distance calls, the purpose of which was to help fund a war which took place between April and August of 1898. As time went on, events like the First World War and the Depression continued to put a strain on the American economy, so the government kept the tax in place. Years became decades and finally, in 2006, someone put a stop to a tax that had milked the populace for billions. In fact, it was determined that $15 billion should be refunded to tax payers.<\/p>\n
Flushing Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Roger Saunders<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn 2005, Maryland introduced a $30 tax for flushing your toilet. The plan was to put the money into repairing sewage treatment plants by effectively giving everyone in the state a pay toilet. But if there\u2019s one thing people don\u2019t like it\u2019s when the government imposes an intrusive tax that has a built in \u201cno way out\u201d clause, as very few of us are accustomed to going to the washroom outdoors these days.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers were all hit, regardless of whether they had septic systems and private water sources or they were hooked up to the city, meaning many thousands of angry phone calls had to be fielded but since the plan was to pull in nearly $70 million in tax revenue, the state government wasn\u2019t about to let this one go and most people who protested ended up paying eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s just a few of the more bizarre taxes that have been levied over the years; Danegeld History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Speaking of Tsar Peter, it\u2019s worth noting he didn\u2019t stop at beards. Whether through greed or insanity, Peter really wanted as much money as he could get his hands on, so he went about taxing pretty much everything that people would conceivably have handy. He put a tax on beehives to keep those honey barons in check, he taxed horse collars so the people who weren\u2019t walking wouldn\u2019t get a free ride, hats got taxed, boots, basements, chimneys, food, clothing and anyone who was born a male faced a tax. And because why stop there, births in general were also taxed, along with marriages and burial of the dead. And if all you were doing was standing still, naked, in the middle of nowhere, you still owed a tax for something because a soul tax was introduced in 1718. And if you believed you had no soul and were an atheist, then you owed a religious dissenter tax.<\/p>\n
Illegal Drugs <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>TedsBlog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nProbably under the theory that anyone\u2019s worth a try, no less than 10 states have tried to place a tax on narcotics. Yes, the very principle of the tax is kind of mind blowing, but states like Kansas decided it couldn\u2019t hurt. There, dealers are expected to purchase tax stamps to place on the product and they promise to take no personal information from the dug dealers when they show up to purchase the stamps.<\/p>\n
Though it sounds pretty foolish on the surface, it\u2019s actually a crafty ploy by the government to nab drug dealers during prosecution, as anyone who doesn\u2019t purchase the stamps can also be charged with tax evasion, taking them down in an Al Capone reign of glory.<\/p>\n
Long Distance Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>~ Maryam ~<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFew people realize it but from 1898 until 2006, if you had a phone, you were funding the Spanish American war. For over 100 years, there was a 3% excise tax on long distance calls, the purpose of which was to help fund a war which took place between April and August of 1898. As time went on, events like the First World War and the Depression continued to put a strain on the American economy, so the government kept the tax in place. Years became decades and finally, in 2006, someone put a stop to a tax that had milked the populace for billions. In fact, it was determined that $15 billion should be refunded to tax payers.<\/p>\n
Flushing Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Roger Saunders<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn 2005, Maryland introduced a $30 tax for flushing your toilet. The plan was to put the money into repairing sewage treatment plants by effectively giving everyone in the state a pay toilet. But if there\u2019s one thing people don\u2019t like it\u2019s when the government imposes an intrusive tax that has a built in \u201cno way out\u201d clause, as very few of us are accustomed to going to the washroom outdoors these days.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers were all hit, regardless of whether they had septic systems and private water sources or they were hooked up to the city, meaning many thousands of angry phone calls had to be fielded but since the plan was to pull in nearly $70 million in tax revenue, the state government wasn\u2019t about to let this one go and most people who protested ended up paying eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s just a few of the more bizarre taxes that have been levied over the years; Danegeld History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n<\/a>TedsBlog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nProbably under the theory that anyone\u2019s worth a try, no less than 10 states have tried to place a tax on narcotics. Yes, the very principle of the tax is kind of mind blowing, but states like Kansas decided it couldn\u2019t hurt. There, dealers are expected to purchase tax stamps to place on the product and they promise to take no personal information from the dug dealers when they show up to purchase the stamps.<\/p>\n
Though it sounds pretty foolish on the surface, it\u2019s actually a crafty ploy by the government to nab drug dealers during prosecution, as anyone who doesn\u2019t purchase the stamps can also be charged with tax evasion, taking them down in an Al Capone reign of glory.<\/p>\n
Long Distance Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>~ Maryam ~<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFew people realize it but from 1898 until 2006, if you had a phone, you were funding the Spanish American war. For over 100 years, there was a 3% excise tax on long distance calls, the purpose of which was to help fund a war which took place between April and August of 1898. As time went on, events like the First World War and the Depression continued to put a strain on the American economy, so the government kept the tax in place. Years became decades and finally, in 2006, someone put a stop to a tax that had milked the populace for billions. In fact, it was determined that $15 billion should be refunded to tax payers.<\/p>\n
Flushing Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Roger Saunders<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn 2005, Maryland introduced a $30 tax for flushing your toilet. The plan was to put the money into repairing sewage treatment plants by effectively giving everyone in the state a pay toilet. But if there\u2019s one thing people don\u2019t like it\u2019s when the government imposes an intrusive tax that has a built in \u201cno way out\u201d clause, as very few of us are accustomed to going to the washroom outdoors these days.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers were all hit, regardless of whether they had septic systems and private water sources or they were hooked up to the city, meaning many thousands of angry phone calls had to be fielded but since the plan was to pull in nearly $70 million in tax revenue, the state government wasn\u2019t about to let this one go and most people who protested ended up paying eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s just a few of the more bizarre taxes that have been levied over the years; Danegeld History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n<\/a>~ Maryam ~<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFew people realize it but from 1898 until 2006, if you had a phone, you were funding the Spanish American war. For over 100 years, there was a 3% excise tax on long distance calls, the purpose of which was to help fund a war which took place between April and August of 1898. As time went on, events like the First World War and the Depression continued to put a strain on the American economy, so the government kept the tax in place. Years became decades and finally, in 2006, someone put a stop to a tax that had milked the populace for billions. In fact, it was determined that $15 billion should be refunded to tax payers.<\/p>\n
Flushing Tax <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>Roger Saunders<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn 2005, Maryland introduced a $30 tax for flushing your toilet. The plan was to put the money into repairing sewage treatment plants by effectively giving everyone in the state a pay toilet. But if there\u2019s one thing people don\u2019t like it\u2019s when the government imposes an intrusive tax that has a built in \u201cno way out\u201d clause, as very few of us are accustomed to going to the washroom outdoors these days.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers were all hit, regardless of whether they had septic systems and private water sources or they were hooked up to the city, meaning many thousands of angry phone calls had to be fielded but since the plan was to pull in nearly $70 million in tax revenue, the state government wasn\u2019t about to let this one go and most people who protested ended up paying eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s just a few of the more bizarre taxes that have been levied over the years; Danegeld History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n<\/a>Roger Saunders<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn 2005, Maryland introduced a $30 tax for flushing your toilet. The plan was to put the money into repairing sewage treatment plants by effectively giving everyone in the state a pay toilet. But if there\u2019s one thing people don\u2019t like it\u2019s when the government imposes an intrusive tax that has a built in \u201cno way out\u201d clause, as very few of us are accustomed to going to the washroom outdoors these days.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers were all hit, regardless of whether they had septic systems and private water sources or they were hooked up to the city, meaning many thousands of angry phone calls had to be fielded but since the plan was to pull in nearly $70 million in tax revenue, the state government wasn\u2019t about to let this one go and most people who protested ended up paying eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s just a few of the more bizarre taxes that have been levied over the years; Danegeld History teaches us that you didn\u2019t want to mess with a Viking because he would pillage, plunder and burn your village you before you even saw his pointy hat cresting the horizon. Vikings were well aware that no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}