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defrost 35 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating

Dunno 'bout that, King William III had an army and navy in 1696 and controlled the Royal Mint that issued coin.

It's an interesting aside that the Windows tax in great part was driven by revenue loss resulting from coin clipping.

prewett 34 days ago [–]

Parent did not provide a link, but apparently there was a historical tax on actual windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

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