why was Louis xvi bound to increase tax on the French people?
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Louis 16 conclude to increase taxes because of the following reasons : ... and the third cause of increasing tax was the French society was divided in 3 estate namely clergy , nobility and the common people , Louis XVI game 2 estate clergy and nobility luxurious life so that Texas was given to the third estate.
France was bankrupt largely because of the American Revolution (which France spent millions on), court expanses, and the fact that the top two-orders were largely exempt from taxes. A healthy solution would have been to have forced the first two estates (the clergy and nobility) to pay their fair share of taxes, and to centralize tax collection to the state, rather then to continue to allow the nobility to tax the third estate, force them to work on any projects they wished, and exploit them in numerous other ways.
So, Louis had a good reason to increase the taxes on the nobility, and that was part of what the Assembly of Notables was about. The first two orders were largely reluctant to accept these changes unless they had a say in government. This is where Louis should have either agreed to give them that power, or tax them anyway, and put his full support behind the third estate. He did neither. Instead he invited the third estates to elect their own leaders, make a list of grievances, and therefore created an expectation that change was coming to France. As soon as they arrived, he turned sides again, and supported the nobility. The same people who had earlier turned against him when he proposed raising taxes.