Talk:Taxation

Article Checklist for "Taxation"

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Intro

"Taxation is the imposition of a transfer of money to the government." This is a poor intro for many reasons (I wrote it), not the least of which is that I can't think of a better term than "money" which seems inaccurate (taxation can exist without money, right?). Anthony 20:19, 21 January 2007 (CST)

History (basically resolved)

• "The oldest tax system that we know about was set up 6,000 years ago at a place called Lagash." - http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0899taxrel.htm
  • need a better source to prove or disprove this.

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I would be inclined to leave the factoid in, flagged here on the Talk page, and remove the source simply because the source is inappropriate; the sourced info might be correct, though. We do, will, and arguably must have all sorts of unsourced claims.

Anyway, though, do as you like; I am writing as contributor here, not as editor. --Larry Sanger 19:46, 21 January 2007 (CST)

• The place seems to be correct, and the date is fairly close to the beginning of recorded history anyway, so I've mentioned that rather than definitively saying it is the oldest. Anthony 20:09, 21 January 2007 (CST)