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“Neither air nor light have been free since the imposition of the window tax. We are obliged to pay for what nature lavishly supplies to all, at so much per window per year; and the poor who cannot afford the expense are stinted in two of the most urgent necessities of life.”
Dickens prevailed: the window tax, which had been levied in England since 1696, was abolished within a year. But the curious story of the tax, explored recently by Wallace Oates and Robert Schwab in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, holds lessons for us today.
What we can learn from the disastrous window tax -
Dickens prevailed: the window tax, which had been levied in England since 1696, was abolished within a year. But the curious story of the tax, explored recently by Wallace Oates and Robert Schwab in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, holds lessons for us today.
What we can learn from the disastrous window tax -
