The most eye-opening part about this is that back then they simple told you how much you owe. Today you have to have an accountant or software figure it out for you and if you're wrong you get fined. 

I also love how they said what the funds were going for. 0.16 to the poor, 0.04 to fix something that was 'sinking,' and the biggest expense in the whole community was a school fee of 52 cents. 

Imagine if right now they said 'You Owe $9,300 to pay for Ukrainian defense...' That would shut that program down REAL quick! There would be mass non-compliance on a well-deserved scale.