A history of taxation written and compiled by NESTA PAIN
Narrated by Gabriel Woolf
From earliest times kings and governments have had to extract money from the people in peace and war. They have ' soaked the rich imposed wage freezes, fined employers who paid above the permitted rate, taxed roads, cattle, stamps, toys, tombstones, and human heads. And always the people have greeted each new demand with ' murmurings and smothered curses ', and sought ways most devious and desperate to avoid handing the money over. With GREGORY DE POLNAY ADRIAN EGAN , LEONARD FEN-TON, DAVID GARTH , SHEILA GRANT , JOHN JUSTIN , BILL MONKS, WOLFE MORRIS , CLIFFORD ROSE and KENNETH SHANLEY
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