“[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.” IdeasCasesBecomingTerribleTaxesClassicGood IdeasPolls Author:Norman Tebbit
“The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires.” PeopleWantAsksPayBreakRichTaxesRaisesBillsSenateMinimumLegislationPollsBillionaireMinimum WageTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.” PeopleGovernmentFightingViolenceOne ThingStreetsTaxesPolicePropertyRoundsCirclesToneBritainMarchSquaresBrushesPollsRest Of Your LifeRiot Author:Alice Nutter
“The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsGovernmentMightWould BeWantedNextLevelsPayOpinionOne ThingCrimeFiguresHigherTaxesLowsDeserveRateAccidentsLikesAbsurdPublic OpinionPollsCrime RatesOpinion Polls Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.” SaidI CanTaxesCancerCommunistPollsLynching Author:Studs Terkel
“Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.” StatesPartyCuttingBrokenTaxesUnionsCirclesRanWelfareLabourPollsCrushedDespisedWelfare StateMinersLabour Party Author:Jon Weisman
“It's the first time in U.S. history a presidential candidate has not revealed his tax returns, or a president.I think that the poll ratings are in the gutter right now, right? Donald Trump's, even before he's been inugurated.” ThinkingFirstsPresidentReturnTrumpRight NowTaxesFirst TimePresidentialCandidatesPollsRatingPresidential CandidateGuttersTax Returns Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“By contrast, poll taxes were very effective in excluding blacks, as well as impacting many poor whites; in legal parlance, they were overly inclusive but nevertheless served their intended discriminatory purpose. This [Muslim ban] is fundamentally not the case here.” WellsPurposePoorCasesTaxesContrastNeverthelessPollsBans Author:David B. Rivkin