The basis for this argument seems to be that when William the Conqueror assumed the throne of England in 1066 he set about collecting taxes. Well for a start William the Conqueror was French and was known as William the Bastard in England, so this surely means that the French relish collecting taxes and not the British?
Apparently because of this we pay taxes now, but it was the Egyptians who first came up with the idea of taxes, and anyway, the first taxes paid in England were during the occupation of the Roman Empire some 10 centuries before William the Conqueror was even a twinkle in his mother's eye.
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