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THE FIRST VACUUM TUBE INTEGRATED CITCUT WAS INVENTED TO BEAT UNFAIR TAXES.
The 1926 German Radio Tax: How One Clever Tube Beat the Bureaucrats (And Why Governments Will Repeat the Mistake with Robots)
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In 1926, the German government had a brilliant idea for raising revenue from the exciting new world of radio broadcasting: tax the radios themselves. Not by their price, size, or even their power consumption. No. They taxed them by the number of vacuum tubes (or, more precisely, by the number of valveholders or sockets they contained).
The more tubes your receiver had, the higher the Rundfunksteuer (radio tax) you paid. It was a classic case of early 20th century bureaucracy trying to squeeze money out of technology it barely understood.
Enter Loewe Audion GmbH, a German radio manufacturer. They were not about to let a silly per tube tax kill their business. In 1926, they introduced the Loewe 3NF.
A single glass envelope that packed three triode vacuum tubes, plus two fixed capacitors and four fixed resistors, all sealed inside one unit. It was essentially a complete radio receiver circuit in one tube.
A full featured three stage radio now only needed one socket, so it was taxed as a humble single tube set.
The 3NF let Loewe undercut competitors dramatically, and roughly one million of these ingenious devices were produced.
It was, quite literally, one of the worlds first integrated circuits. Decades before the silicon chip. But born not from Moores Law, but from tax evasion.
When one filament eventually burned out (as tubes did back then), the whole expensive assembly had to be replaced, but Loewe even offered a repair service. Innovation driven by government overreach?
Sounds familiar.
Governments Never Learn
Fast forward a century. Radio tubes are long gone, replaced by transistors, microchips, and now AI powered robots and autonomous systems. Yet the bureaucratic impulse remains exactly the same: when something new and productive emerges, tax it by counting its parts in the most literal, outdated way possible.
Imagine the future headlines: New EU Robot Tax Bill: Levy Based on Number of Actuators, Sensors, or AI Cores or how large the parameters. Or an American proposal: Tax robots per motor or per teraflop of compute.
Policymakers, desperate for revenue as automation displaces traditional jobs, will inevitably reach for the same blunt instrument Germany used in 1926.
They will ignore value created, economic output, or societal benefit, and instead fixate on something countable and physical. Just like counting glowing glass envelopes in a wooden radio cabinet.
The 3NF proved that clever engineers will always find a workaround. Companies will design single actuator humanoid robots that somehow perform like multi limbed ones, or cloud based AI systems that minimize on device taxable hardware. Innovation will be diverted into tax dodging contortions rather than genuine progress. Meanwhile, the tax collectors will be left scratching their heads, just as they were when the first 3NF equipped Loewe radios flooded the market.
History does not repeat, but it rhymes. In 1926, the German state tried to meter the future with 19th century logic and got outmaneuvered by a single brilliant tube.
A hundred years later, when robots roam factories, homes, and streets, the same shortsightedness will return. Because governments, like bad comedians, only have one joke.
The Loewe 3NF was not just a radio part. It was a warning: tax the technology stupidly, and the technology will tax you right back.

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Imagine being an illegal alien from Haiti with 30 priors and pushing a 5th generation New Yorker in front of this
Sharing Travel@TripInChina
A high-speed train is passing through the high-speed railway station at full speed. It looks cool.😎
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They literally had to turn off replies to this because footage of a great American city from 50 years ago is too radicalizing.
This is where we are.
Willfully destroyed, in every sense.
Fenway Park@fenwaypark
Tomorrow.
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WOAH 🚨 2 illegal immigrants in Virginia murdered an American citizen and Democrats cut the illegals “a sweetheart deal” and “WILL BE OUT IN 3 YEARS”
The illegals who committed the murder had ICE detainers but Democrats RELEASED THEM. After being released they murdered an American
“Two illegal immigrants in Fairfax County, admitted to murdering someone in Oakton in 2024 — A story that is all too familiar in Fairfax County, Commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano's office offered them a sweetheart plea deal.
I just picked it up at the courthouse. And so they have a sentence of 25 years, but they will only have to serve 5 of those years, and they get credit for time served, meaning they will be out IN 3 YEARS and they'll have a few years of probation after that.
Now, when we first reported on this murder in 2024, ICE told us that they lodged detainers against one of the men several times. But Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid did not honor those detainers and allow that man back into the community before this murder”
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@Zentrification1 It really is.... not to mention the dropping iqs across the board. In two generations.... fully dependent, violent retards.
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@Clutchnut It's amazing how much we lost due to Black violence and illegals.
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We can't have an all you can eat Burger Kinf buffet in America.
If only we were more civilized like we used to be.
ばこばこ@bako_sgs
今日はバーガーキング の食べ放題へ行ってきた 1000円値上がりしたがトートバッグが追加されたのは悪くないのだ
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@Zentrification1 The ones near me are demographically no-gos. Even the casinos aren't worth the money.
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This is what the they think about you.
Wake up Goyim.

Harrison H. Smith ✞@HarrisonHSmith
Yeah we know
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RT @ggreenwald: Take a moment from your day and open your heart to read about the struggles of this American venture capitalist billionaire…
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