Sunday, August 23, 2015

3075 - SB13 - Chicken tax


In the early 1960's the US got into a chicken / light truck war with Europe. It resulted in a whole bunch of weird taxes and tariffs. Here's the story that still goes on to this day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax


4 comments:

eViL pOp TaRt said...

Ahh! Protectionism at its finest.

John A Hill said...

Very interesting...but dumb.

Duckbutt said...

Chickenshit.

Cherdo said...

We're an odd bunch...aren't we?