43 STATES HAVE A POLLTAX

43 States Have a Polltax November 12, 2008 When the Supreme Court declared the poll tax unconstitutional no one questioned the right of a state’s subdivision to raise taxes. The issue was the imposition of a cost on people because they vote. The Court held that “Voter qualifications have no relation to wealth nor to paying or not paying this or any other tax.” Forty-three states use voter lists to choose people to serve jury duty. Some use it as the only source. Since blue collar... read more

43 States Have a Polltax November 12, 2008 When the Supreme Court declared the poll tax unconstitutional no one questioned the right of a state’s subdivision to raise taxes. The issue was the imposition of a cost on people because they vote. The Court held that “Voter qualifications have no relation to wealth nor to paying or not paying this or any other tax.” Forty-three states use voter lists to choose people to serve jury duty. Some use it as the only source. Since blue collar...

POLLTAX (43 STATES HAVE ONE) When the Supreme Court declared the poll tax unconstitutional no one questioned the right of a state’s subdivision to raise taxes. The issue was the imposition of a cost on people because they vote. The Court held that “Voter qualifications have no relation to wealth nor to paying or not paying this or any other tax.” Forty-three states use voter lists to choose people to serve jury duty. Some use it as the only source. Since blue collar workers and poorer workers are...

Contents of entries (posts) KEYNES SEGMENTS 1 AND 2) Sharing the work is the best way to eliminate unemployment. While that solution seems obvious, we know that the solutions the government tries are focused on increasing the level of economic activity. Is this because legislators realize that sometimes a seemingly simple solution is a bad one? I try to show in the text below that the simple solution is the right one. What is complicated is the reasons for governments not adopting it. ...

Contents, part 1: entries (posts) on law, economics and government 2 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS is not just a statement of universal morals. Anyone who reads it can see it is sectarian. See my blog re this and school prayer 3 FLAG BURNING :  Liberals in Congress should introduce an amendment that specified that nonverbal expression is protected and increased the percentages needed to amend the Constitution’s protection of the liberties of individuals and by the same amendment authorize...

Contents of entries (posts) 1 MENDEL .  The reason why children created by sexual reproduction differ from their parents is usually due to such indivisible carriers of inheritance, which we now call genes, as Gregor Mendel showed after Darwin’s time. Mendel’s experiments showed that genes were randomly selected without contamination by the genes that were not selected. It follows that their random mixture could no more make an eohippus evolve into a horse (no matter what the advantages that...