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To: XR7
"You gotta serve someone"- Bob Dylan..

Medieval serfs never paid more than 10% of their earnings to their masters..
What do you pay in taxes?.. all told..

19 posted on 10/01/2005 1:46:05 PM PDT by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

Medieval serfs never paid more than 10% of their earnings to their masters.>>>>>>>>>>

Reference please? I believe I was taught in school that it was one third, still lower than our total tax burden but a lot more than 10%. Of course it might be a little difficult to calculate the actual figure if we bear in mind that the serf received a house to live in as part of his share, whereas we have to pay enormous sums for a house and then pay property taxes to the master so that we can live in it.


47 posted on 10/02/2005 9:09:03 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)
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