Let's go on to item 3 in the list.

If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.

In 1861 the niggerologist Josiah Nott told a British newspaper that the possibility of manumission posed distressing problems for white Americans: […]

The sin tax is an established tactic. In the early 1500s, Pope Leo X underwrote his lavish lifestyle in part by taxing licensed prostitutes.