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So, you're taxed on what you buy,
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and since poor people have less
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money to buy things it really is totally unfair.
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But the origins of this system is in the octroi,
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and this is one of those actually fairly rare photos that I know of,
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of what it was like in your sort of diligence, your coach here.
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This was called an imperial because people rode on the top,
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and you're leaving Paris, or you're entering Paris,
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it doesn't matter at all, but the point is that you were controlled,
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day or night, when you went through.
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And on the edge of Paris are created these working-class industrial
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suburbs that are feared by the center,