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21: The bandit that gives back

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Is the Brick Tax a Random Tax?

It's the late 18th century. Late 18th century does not feel like American Revolutionary War to me. For some reason, that doesn't feel like the right definition of their late 18th Century feels like medieval. It was more so for a specific cause thing. Like there was a hard like you would you would charge the penny per hundred bricks tax and the solution was just to make really big bricks. That's has to be.

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