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Subject: 
Poll tax! (was: Those stupid liberal judges are at it again!)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Those stupid liberal judges are at it again!
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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