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Part Two: The Most Evil Company In History

Behind the Bastards

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What's So Crazy About the Taxes on the Bengolese People?

In april 17 70, astoundingly, the council, acting on the advice of the moslem minister of finance, mohammed reza khan, added ten % to the land tax of the ensuing year. So why don't they just eat the food that they're harvesting? Right? Then there gis w uns. Theyre ws. And they've got it like bad things will happen if you don't pay your ti. What's crazy as they treat it like it's business, like they have some god given right to do this because they created this at thing we call like a business plan. Yes, troksure, but really it boils down to robbery

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