The Chinese poll tax
Back in 1881, all Chinese had to pay money to get into the country they were charged 10 pounds for 10 tons of cargo but these days that’s 1700 dollars just to get into the country. Then the price got pushed up to 100 pounds for 200 tons of cargo. Now that’s 19,000 dollars for every person. It later ended in 1944 and the government later apologized in 2002 and now there is a trust set up for Chinese community projects which happen all over the country.
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