What We Learned About Taxes
Yesterday we did an activity where there was a king and 2 tax collectors. I was chosen by the teacher to be the king and I had to give orders to the villagers (students) on what and how much they had to pay me for those spacific details that (Those were the taxes).Then the 2 tax collectors would go out to the students and collect the money and bring it back to me, the king. What I learned about with this activity was that it seemed like the king would tax the smallest most spacific things that the villagers couldn’t help having.After all of that the money would be brought back to the king and he would have to pay a little bit to the tax collectors. I thought it was very unfair. Continue reading