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Originally Posted by papa smurf
it says here that it was.
The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of taxation introduced in replacement of domestic rates in Scotland from 1989, prior to its introduction in England and Wales from 1990. It provided for a single flat-rate per-capita tax on every adult, at a rate set by the local authority. The charge was replaced by Council Tax in 1993, two years after its abolition was announced.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_(Great_Britain) |
I don't think Old Boy doubts it was a tax, just that he thinks it unfair to call it a tax on voting. Branding a tax or charge a poll tax is of course not the same as calling a
person a traitor.