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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1892640, member: 12789&quot;]That is true, most sales taxes were not initiated until the 1930s - which was the whole reasoning behind the sales tax tokens in 1 and 5 mills denominations.&nbsp; By the 1960s the last of those tokens, by then plastic in Missouri were phased out.&nbsp; Taxes got rounded up or down to the nearest cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Taxes in the 19th century would sting us today, ever wonder why people had those wardrobe etc because they couldn&#039;t be considered a separate room - households were taxed by the number of rooms they had.&nbsp; I know that was in place in Missouri because all the homes built prior to the Civil War had wardrobes instead of closets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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