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the meeting of the estates general in 1789 was the first in almost 200 years the cause for the meeting was the third estate who wanted to change the tax code because of the heavy tax that was forced upon them. A major issue was determining how they should vote, vote as estates (which gave the upper classes the advantage) or vote as individuals (which gave the lower class the advantage). Jacques Necker, a Swiss banker who became the finance minister of Louis XVI, supported changing the tax code to gain more money for the king. rather than voting by as individuals, which is what the people wanted, voting remained as one vote for each estate and the first and second estates kept the tax code the same, still taxing the third estate who had very little money because of bad weather and crop failure although the meeting didn’t change the tax code it made the third estate think about braking away from the others.