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ISBN/UID: 9780684871141
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Edition Pub Date: 19 December 1998
Description
In 1798, after Congress had passed its first direct tax on houses, the government cooked up a scheme to count and measure the windows on every taxpayer's house, in order to calculate how much to charge. But German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania ...
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256 pages • missing pub info (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780684871141
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Edition Pub Date: 19 December 1998
Description
In 1798, after Congress had passed its first direct tax on houses, the government cooked up a scheme to count and measure the windows on every taxpayer's house, in order to calculate how much to charge. But German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania ...