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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 389494" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Oh good grief. Don't tell me which books you've been reading. I probably could dig through the literature and hazard a guess. Please don't romanticize a horrible system of slavery.</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry, but this is horribly bad research that ignores a half dozen things. I'm no fan of European Socialism by a long shot (which is a gross understatement), but its hard to argue that the 'peasants' are better off in the middle ages than they are now in Europe - even under (nay, especially under) Sweden's 90%+ theoretical taxation rate. Please don't try to tell me how well off the serfs were under the fuedal system. And please don't try to tell me that the high water mark of the common man was the guild system either.</p><p></p><p>Tax rates for peasants in the feudal system were as high as could be imposed without starving them to death. That's the bottom line. In many cases, this was as high as 50% and nowhere was it as low as 15%, but I defy you to find a tax rate anywhere in the first world which is so high that it leaves the taxee with only a subsitance level income.</p><p></p><p>And strictly speaking, the feudal system does not apply to peasants and serfs. The feudal system specifically describes the contractual obligations between lords.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 389494, member: 4937"] Oh good grief. Don't tell me which books you've been reading. I probably could dig through the literature and hazard a guess. Please don't romanticize a horrible system of slavery. I'm sorry, but this is horribly bad research that ignores a half dozen things. I'm no fan of European Socialism by a long shot (which is a gross understatement), but its hard to argue that the 'peasants' are better off in the middle ages than they are now in Europe - even under (nay, especially under) Sweden's 90%+ theoretical taxation rate. Please don't try to tell me how well off the serfs were under the fuedal system. And please don't try to tell me that the high water mark of the common man was the guild system either. Tax rates for peasants in the feudal system were as high as could be imposed without starving them to death. That's the bottom line. In many cases, this was as high as 50% and nowhere was it as low as 15%, but I defy you to find a tax rate anywhere in the first world which is so high that it leaves the taxee with only a subsitance level income. And strictly speaking, the feudal system does not apply to peasants and serfs. The feudal system specifically describes the contractual obligations between lords. [/QUOTE]
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