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Judge Rules Feds Can't Require States to Cooperate on Immigration to Get Disaster Money (www.usnews.com)

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[–] milkisklim@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I know youre being funny, but 1600s English tax law is actually quite an interesting subject.

Charles I spent most of his time trying to raise money to do navy war things, but couldn't because only Parlemont could pass taxes, so he did a one weird trick thing and made costal towns pay or build ships since costal towns benefit from having ships to defend them. This was called Ship Money.

Problem was, England was at peace and didn't need those ships. This not legally a tax "tax" was one of the several abuses of power that led to the English Civil War and the beheading of Charles I...

In technical terms this is called an oopsie doopsie.