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Taxes are of three types and are always emotive especially when rulers become insensitive. These are cash, material/property, and forced labour/slavery, which is blood taxation.
When taxes become excessive, people revolt and this leads to new socio-political dispensations.
In 1215, the English nobility rose against King John who then issued the Magna Carta on the Rights of Englishmen which roughly six centuries later in 1760s became the basis of colonial rebellion in North America chanting, "no taxation without representation".
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