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Marco Polo ran one of the khanates in the region
The government regulates the economy for the benefit of the public through two approaches: monetary policy and fiscal policy. Through monetary policy, the government exercises its power to regulate the money supply and level of interest rates. Through fiscal policy, it uses its power to tax and to spend.
The 10% bill on state tax on state government to pay reconstruction costs was the main provision of the Wade-Davis bill of 1864 that led Lincoln to pocket veto it.
When Prussia was hit by famine in 1744, King Frederick the Great, a potato enthusiast, had to order the peasantry to eat the tubers. In England, 18th-century farmers denounced S. tuberosum as an advance scout for hated Roman Catholicism. “No Potatoes, No Popery!” was an election slogan in 1765. France was especially slow to adopt the spud. Into the fray stepped Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the potato’s Johnny Appleseed.
