I will be interested to see when Cllr Williams next asks for election backing in Bablake ward if his newsletters include his 'crusade' to introduce Thatcher's
poll tax.
Labour peer Lord Foulkes, who was an MP in Scotland when the levy was introduced, said of the revelations: "Ultimately, Thatcher was toppled as a result of the
Poll Tax and justice was served.
However Chancellor Nigel Lawson, an early opponent of the
poll tax, warned that dropping the transitional arrangements - as eventually happened - would leave them exposed to "unacceptable political risks".
That's partly why the law's opponents - supported by Ramos' ruling - called Texas' law a
poll tax, outlawed by 14th and 24th Amendments to the Constitution.
In the last year the council brought in around PS300,000 of unpaid
poll tax.
William Eustis Russell, a Democrat, supported a series of pro-labor laws, doing away with the state's
poll tax at the same time, Webster assessor Marc D.
NOW we know why Mr Blair wants to impose a
poll tax on our roads - it is a directive from the EU.
Had the Conservative Party kept its nerve and refused to climb down, the
poll tax might even have achieved its stated aim of making people realise just how much it costs to fund local authorities.
The ID requirement is akin to a 21st-century
poll tax."
The law serves as a
poll tax and shuts down community-based registration drives--effectively disenfranchising potential voters in Latino, Black and Native American communities, according to Nina Perales of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
The Courts have ruled that Georgia's photo ID requirement is tantamount to a
poll tax, which is prohibited under the VRA, because voters have to pay to obtain government-issued photo IDs.
Fifteen years ago, the much-despised
poll tax ( or to give it its correct title, Community Charge ( caused rioting on the streets of Britain in a display of public outrage not seen in this country in living memory.
