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Frankelly:   One shilling for a pack of playing cards!   And ten shillings for a pair of dice!   That's outrageous!   That's a lot .   That's like half my fortune, right there.

Dylan:   I was purchasing land yesterday, three more shillings, just for under a hundred acres?! It's crazy!

Martha:   Time out for one second. I want people to really think about their own jobs.   And how is this directly affecting your own job.   A lot of you wrote down some really smart things in your notebooks, and instead of just reading out what's happening, think about your job.   Talk to your town about what's going to happen to you and your family, because of these taxes.

Student: These taxes will make less customers come into my shop.

Martha:   And so, what are you going to do?

Student:   My animals need land, so that they can roam around, and they can't all be squished together.

Student:   We all need paper to write our bills, so why 12 shillings, just for 400 sheets of paper?

Daniel:   And for the newspapers, they add a penny. . .

Martha:   So how's that affecting your life?

Daniel: I can't buy a newspaper every single day, like I used to, because then I might go out of business.

Martha:   So you can't buy a newspaper every single day any more. So what about you guys, what's going to happen to you?

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