[readthenotes1]

Escape import duties if aromatic herbs had lower fees than cha?

[IAmBroom]

Not only are most folk etymologies about acronyms pure hooey, but most historical explanations that involve tax-dodging are, too.

Take for instance the upper-story medieval buildings that jut out over the first floor. NEVER done for tax reasons; ALWAYS done for a perfectly simply structural reasons. For the tax story to have an ounce of truth, there would have to have been invariant, multi-country, identical tax laws about footprints of houses.

[triceratops]

It would take just one customs inspector opening up one mislabeled box and the game would be up.

[maratc]

But then it could end up in the Supreme Court [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden