TIL that back in the good ol’ days of The Gilded Age there was a luxury tax and rich people went to jail!
The Carnegies and Rockefellers, the Morgans and Vanderbilts must have been quaking in their spatterdashes!
EDIT: It is, at very best, utterly useless to view the past with rose-tinted glasses.
TIL that back in the good ol’ days of The Gilded Age there was a luxury tax and rich people went to jail!
The Carnegies and Rockefellers, the Morgans and Vanderbilts must have been quaking in their spatterdashes!
EDIT: It is, at very best, utterly useless to view the past with rose-tinted glasses.