JUNIOR · AGES 6+
Taxes: Who Pays for Civilization?
Why people share money to build roads, schools and cities.
★ AN OMAHAINDIA ORIGINAL ★
Who pays for roads, schools and hospitals? Siri travels back in time to find the very first taxes — grain, gold and clay tablets — and finds out why people share money to build things together.
WHO PAYS FOR THE ROADS?
🌾 A harvest → 🤝 sharing → 🏛️ a city → 🛣️ roads and schools → 🌍 civilization
The Library
25 books. From ancient grain to today. · Books 1 and 2 are free.
Book 1
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The First Tax
Who Asked for Grain First?
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Book 2
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The Granary
How Grain Fed an Empire
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Book 3
Armies
What an Empire Really Costs
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Book 4
Roads
What Tax Money Builds
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Book 5
Unfair Taxes
When People Say No
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Book 6
Salt
The Tax Worth Fighting Over
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Book 7
Representation
The Tax That Sparked Revolution
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Book 8
France
When Unequal Taxes Explode
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Book 9
Colonial Taxes
Taxes as a Tool of Power
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Book 10
Income Tax
From Wartime Idea to Paycheck
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Book 11
Who Really Pays? Follow the Tax
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Book 12
Prices
What Happens When You Tax Something
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Book 13
Inflation
The Tax Nobody Voted For
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Book 14
Sales Tax
One Product, Many Taxes
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Book 15
The Factory Choice
Where Taxes Move Jobs
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Book 16
Low-Tax Countries
The Little Country's Big Idea
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Book 17
Tax Havens
Why Register a Company Here?
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Book 18
Global Companies
Who Gets to Tax Them?
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Book 19
Tax Competition
The Race to the Bottom?
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Book 20
Digital Taxes
Where Does an App Do Business?
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Book 21
Fairness
Should Everyone Pay the Same?
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Book 22
Incentives
How Taxes Change Behaviour
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Book 23
Backfires
When Good Tax Ideas Go Wrong
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Book 24
Thinking It Through
Who Pays, Who Benefits?
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Book 25
Trust
What Makes a Tax System Work
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