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Single Taxers (Entry 1164.LV2716)

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In which a forgotten Gilded Age celebrity suggests reinventing the tax code so that landowners pay their fair share, and John is discomfited by the city of Altoona. Certificate #41467.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

0:26.2

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 1164

1:16.2

L. V 2716 certificate number 414

1:20.8

767

1:22.2

single taxers or is it single taxers?

1:27.0

Oh, we can, yeah, yeah, you know we can.

1:32.0

Let's watch a landlord, let's win the landlord, let's win the landlord,

1:35.0

man.

1:38.0

They're both taxers and they cannot find a partner, a romantic partner.

1:42.0

Taxers is a word I haven't heard before.

1:45.0

The movement is single tax and in the manner of 19th century political movements.

1:50.0

I said it.

1:51.0

Single taxers.

1:52.0

Although are there other movements like that now I can't think

1:54.8

sure women suffragers for suppositioners these all sound like words my sister

2:00.0

would make up uh..., 31st century.

2:04.0

Truthers.

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