Consoom Retarded
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So, if a landowner earned 500 bucks or 5 million bucks or nothing at all … was completely irrelevant (except of course regarding his ability to pay the taxes).
Relevant was, he did own a piece of land, and a house on it, an olive orchard, and 100 slaves, and three dozen livestock, and all of this together was estimated to be worth 100,000 bucks by the tax department … so, normally you payed 1,000 bucks in taxes for it, but could go up to 2,000 in emergencies or 3,000 in really dire “we’re fucked”-emergencies. That 3% rate was of course unsustainable over any longer period of time. Return on Investment on your landowner assets would mostly be somewhere between 1.5% and 2% - under good conditions. Much lower
It was not always particularly fair and not always light. The romans also had a version of sales tax.
However, a tax is a tax. I'm not here to argue that American taxation is not inherently unfair, it is. But there are people who will argue that *all* taxation is unfair and should be gotten rid of. Which is both untrue and would lead to a societal collapse.