Taxes: Crash Course Economics #31
We've been talking about the unavoidables recently. Last time, we covered Death. This time, it's taxes. So, what are taxes? Why do we pay taxes? What is all that tax money used for? This week,...
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Hi I’m Adriene Hill, this is Crash Course Economics, and today we’re going to talk about taxes. We’re going to talk about why we have taxes, what they do for us, and why you should go ahead and take that raise that’s going to bump you into the next tax bracket. Also rebellions. And the British Empire’s bad judgement when it came to taxing colonies. [Theme Music] While your struggles with taxes and the tax code may seem particularly unpleasant to you today, people have been paying, and complaining, about taxes for a long time. Way longer than any of us have been alive. Or our parents. Or our grandparents. Ancient Mesopotamians paid taxes in the form of livestock and labor. There are ancient Egyptians texts and tomb scenes showing evidence of taxe...
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Hi I’m Adriene Hill, this is Crash Course Economics, and today we’re going to talk about taxes. We’re going to talk about why we have taxes, what they do for us, and why you should go ahead and take that raise that’s going to bump you into the next tax bracket. Also rebellions. And the British Empire’s bad judgement when it came to taxing colonies. [Theme Music] While your struggles with taxes and the tax code may seem particularly unpleasant to you today, people have been paying, and complaining, about taxes for a long time. Way longer than any of us have been alive. Or our parents. Or our grandparents. Ancient Mesopotamians paid taxes in the form of livestock and labor. There are ancient Egyptians texts and tomb scenes showing evidence of taxe...
