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The Double Debt in Haiti
Coffee be the number when export in haiti. For more than a century, they tax coffee exports from coffee farmers that are generally small, subsistent farmers growing coffee trees on small plots of land up in the mountains. And that is what pays year after year for the double debt. So the way haite ultimately decides to tackle this debt is to take its most profitable and important product, coffee, tax the heck out of it and ship the bulk of those taxes straight over to france.