stackyFACTSImagine being so obsessed with revenue that you literally weaponize shrubbery.
Imagine being so obsessed with revenue that you literally weaponize shrubbery. To enforce a punitive salt tax, 19th-century British colonial administrators planted an impenetrable 2,500-mile wall of thorny bushes across India. It was a botanical bureaucratic nightmare designed specifically to stop smugglers, proving governments will go to absurd landscaping lengths just to squeeze a few more rupees out of a basic human necessity.
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