These include the possible introduction of a financial-transaction tax, which might scupper its ability to offer free trading and deter customers from trading every day.
And today on Radiolab, Latif and I are bringing Jad and you three wildly different stories about buttons—that are really about power and freedom and destruction.
Taxes imposed with a view to prevent, or even to diminish importation, are evidently as destructive of the revenue of the customs as of the freedom of trade.
Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables strengthen the brain to fight off free radicals that destroy brain cells, enabling your brain to work well for a longer period of time.
Biochemically, this can tell repair mechanisms in your skin to speed up, so you get rid of stuff that was damaged by reactive oxygen species and make new cells and molecules at a faster rate.
Lord Halifax, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, proposed to introduce them, but the scheme was received with suspicion by the colonists, and regarded as a part of an attempt to undermine their liberties.