The common english expression “daylight robbery” comes from the fact that in England there used to be a window tax.

Dominic @DominicFrisby explains to @saifedean how this happened & it’s many repercussions :

Window Tax Caused Disease & Death.

“But it was the urban poor who suffered most. They lived in large tenement buildings, which, having many windows, proved heavily susceptible to the tax. Landlords on whom the tax fell simply boarded up the tenement windows to reduce costs. This led to the tax’s most pernicious unintended consequence: it made people sick.

The numerous epidemics of disease in cities during the Industrial Revolution typhus, smallpox and cholera in particular were made worse by the cramped, damp, windowless dwellings. The Lancet called the tax ‘a direct encouragement to disease’.

An official scientific inquiry concluded that ‘the blocking up of the numerous windows caused by the anxiety of their owners to escape the payment of the tax, has, in very many instances, greatly aggravated, and has even … been the primary cause of much sickness and mortality’. Even so, the tax continued.”

~ Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future by Dominic Frisby.