Beware bad habits and mad ideas rushed through under pressure:
> Some innovations developed at speed during this crisis will endure... In 1798, William Pitt the Younger proposed Britain’s first personal income tax to... take “the burdens of the country, by a great temporary exertion”. The precedent allowed a later prime minister, Robert Peel, to reintroduce income tax in the mid-19th century. This time, it stuck.
https://www.ft.com/content/dedf1fc1-d917-44c9-8b96-87669b1a41e2
@freddy Because income tax is such a bad habit?
@freddy Fair enough
@TheDoctor its just an amusing example.