David Wright writes: > Indeed. But in Britain, the term is politically overloaded, a > touchstone of all that is bad (for a large proportion of the > population). No headline writer would dream of writing Head Tax when > they can scream Poll Tax. Poll tax is the idiomatic expression, that's > all.
In the USA as well. Until poll taxes as a precondition for voting were ruled unconstitutional in the 1960s they were used in some Southern states to discourage blacks (and poor whites) from voting. -- John Hasler [email protected] Elmwood, WI USA
