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bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Give your nickel to Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax

Tl;dr: 6000 BCE in ancient Iraq. It predates money, so they’d pay in whatever they used the land for.

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