While walking to elementary school in Teningen, Germany, I had to pass a big building, named Zehntscheuer. One day I asked my mother why this building is called Zehntscheuer. She told me that long time ago farmers had to bring a Zehnt (tenth) of their harvest to this Scheuer (barn), to pay their dues to the nobility. I felt really pitty for the farmers who had to give away 10% of their harvest. Especially when my mother told me that if farmers tried to hide part of their harvest and were caught, they were severly punished. I thought to myself:" Why were farmers punished for trying to keep what is rightfully theirs. Why is not the nobility being punished for taking away harvest from the farmers? And why does the nobility not just go out and work on the field to harvest themselves?"  I felt lucky to live during a better time, where I could keep all the apples from my own apple tree. Until I started working. How great it would be if my tax were just 10%, and I could bring my 10% to the Zehntscheuer instead of working on my income tax for days.