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.

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