stackyFACTSTaxing the concept of knowing what time it is really backfired. In 1797, Britain introduced a tax on all clocks and watches. The public immediately stopped buying them, nearly bankrupting the entire national watchmaking industry in less than a year before the panicked government repealed it.
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