CanCarrier

By CanCarrier

Daylight Robbery.

False windows, incorporated to avoid Window Tax, which was designed to impose tax relative to the prosperity of the taxpayer, but without the controversy that then surrounded the idea of income tax. At that time, many people in Britain opposed income tax, on principle, because they believed that the disclosure of personal income represented an unacceptable government intrusion into private matters, and a potential threat to personal liberty.

In Scotland Window Tax was imposed by William Pitt the Younger in the 1780s in the financial district in Edinburgh and to this day "Pitt's Pictures" (blacked out windows with white painted cross-frames) can be seen throughout the New Town.

Thus the phrase 'Daylight Robbery'.

And yes, despite the glass, even the bottom one is false.

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