tent-taxes

Updated: May 4, 2025

These people pay taxes, too." "Really? Isn't there any spot on the globe where people can just live as they like, where they can get away from income-tax and authorities?" "I don't know if the Bedouins pay any tent-taxes, but I suppose that if they didn't aspire to owning date-palms, they could live in the arid desert without paying anybody anything. It's the old, old, unchanging subject water."

Norma Lorimer - There was a King in Egypt