Still, despite efforts by the British to move toward Roman script, Muhammad told me, Ajami continued to be used to document everyday life: for tax documents, receipts, correspondence.
"Where does Amazon plan to collect these signatures — in front of bricks and mortar retailers that collect sales tax everyday?" asked Mr. Westrup.
The austerity agenda means that families across the country have even less to spend on everyday essentials, while tax winners at the top have more.
"Everyday Australians are paying tax at a higher rate than billionaire corporations like Chevron, Apple and Google," Getup! campaigner Daney Faddoul said.
But the proposal was met with little enthusiasm by the United States Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, who told Sky News in an interview that he would not support a tax on everyday financial transactions.
"But when you start taxing just everyday food I think that starts to get a little bit hard and quite frankly people are a bit fed up and that is why I think you have seen such a big reaction".
Higher costs manifested in everyday expenses like sales taxes and energy bills now contribute in a large way to growing inequality even in the richest, most elite cities.
In the end it was too much for even the House GOP, that realized it would be blamed if taxes on everyday Americans went up because the Republicans were protecting the wealthy from paying their fair share.
These skewed policy priorities are not cost-free – everyday workers without access to Panamanian tax havens or corporate tax minimisation opportunities look at policies like this and see the deck is loaded against them.
Finally, an everyday tale of everyday folk.
