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Thursday, December 14, 2006
'Daylight robbery'
In a profile of the writer, Iqbal Ahmed, I find that the phrase 'daylight robbery' seems to have originated as a result of the infamous window tax of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Further research reveals this to probably be apocryphal, but even then, it is a story that deserves to be true!
Indeed, the notion that the phrase applies to all taxes isn't far from the truth either.
(CNJ link via email from Deepika Shetty.)
Further research reveals this to probably be apocryphal, but even then, it is a story that deserves to be true!
Indeed, the notion that the phrase applies to all taxes isn't far from the truth either.
(CNJ link via email from Deepika Shetty.)
