Which British Prime Minister introduced income tax in 1799 to fund the war against Napoleonic France?
Britain's love-hate relationship with income tax began not with Labour socialists but with a Tory wartime chancellor desperate for cash. It was meant to be temporary β yet here we are, still paying it more than two centuries later.
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What was the name of the digital cash system created by David Chaum in 1989, often considered the first attempt at electronic money?
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Which fictional Scrooge-like character famously utters the phrase 'Please, sir, I want some more' in a Charles Dickens novel about poverty?
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