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Subject: 
Poll tax! (was: Those stupid liberal judges are at it again!)
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Date: 
Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:50:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:

(snipped)

I'm an atheist. Were it up to me and were I in a less charitable frame of
mind than I usually am, the constitution would say that those of you out
there that hold irrational beliefs (such as christianity, socialism, and
other such counterfactuals), and therefore are less productive members of
society, are not the same class of citizen as those of us that are fully
rational, and would have to pay higher poll taxes to vote than I would.

!
You have to pay a tax TO VOTE???!!!   :-O
Or did I misinterpret?

But it doesn't. It makes no such distinction. Fortunately for you and J2.

Hopefully that clears things up. You're relatively new here in this section
so you'll forgive me if I am somewhat bored by most of this and give rather
terse answers initially, as it's all well plowed ground.


Pedro



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  Re: Poll tax! (was: Those stupid liberal judges are at it again!)
 
(...) No, we currently do not. That's the UK I think(1). I was talking about under an idealised constitution if I got to write it. 1 - or at least I recall that there was some talk of introducing same. Note that a "poll tax" was used as a repressive (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Or suppress it either. Allowing a club to meet isn't support, but preventing one from meeting is suppression. Unless the school has a policy forbidding all clubs from meeting on school grounds it cannot prevent some clubs (which are otherwise (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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