This is so weird. I just finished reading this book of short stories by Carol Shields. One of the stories is about a window tax (tax is based on how many windows people have, so naturally people board up their windows). So I figured it as some kind of 1984-ish type thing: this is where we’re going. Except not. Today in Tax (first day of school, btw), I learn that there actually was a window tax, way back when. Who knew?