Quoting John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com): > tomas writes: > > To me, it's just a thinly veiled way of moving things to a flat-tax > > scheme, for the benefit of the rich (yes, I know about the official > > rationale) > > Don't you mean a head tax? "Flat tax" usually refers to a tax that is a > fixed percentage of all income (or of all expenditures, which comes to > the same thing).
In the UK, tomas's tax would be called a "poll tax", and the replacement of residential rates (on houses) by a poll tax (on people) caused riots in the 1990s before the rates came back in a different guise. In effect, that so-called "poll tax" *was* a poll tax because one way people avoided it was by not putting themselves on the Electoral Register, so losing their vote. Cheers, David.
