Sometimes you refrain from doing something even though it would have been good for you. Although the dynasty was generally a forward-thinking, reformist government, it levied a produce tax on farmers depending on their distance from the capital. Here's a beautiful Roman structure, but it's just to set the scene. During the third century, civilization fell backward as businesspeople actually stopped keeping paper records in a fairly successful effort to evade taxation. Again and again, politicians fail to realize that when citizens are hit with a tax, they do not simply take it on the chin and continue their behavior unchanged.
People react to taxes, often to the detriment of society.
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