Ten For Today: Look Through Any Window
Dean Barlow, The Hollies, Village Sounds, Cuby + Blizzards, Wendy & Bonnie, Vashti Bunyan, Rock Hudson, Waylon Jennings, Ann Peebles, Gang of Four
It’s December 31, and on this day in 1695, England (It’s always England!) enacted a window tax, which was a tax on the number of windows contained in a property. It was intended as a progressive tax, aimed at the wealthy, who had a lot of windows, but the unintended consequence was that landlords boarded up windows to avoid the tax. It was repealed 150 …
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