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Shouldn't we put a link or some reference to the UK Poll Tax ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Charge and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_Tax_Riots) ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.57.5.123 ( talk) 06:58, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
1381 Poll Tax Rising aka The Peasants' Revolt in England doesn't even appear in the article !!! 85.76.147.45 ( talk) 20:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Poll taxes were imposed in British colonial Africa as well; see http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zcolpol.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiki butler ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be some explanation why a law giving voting rights to descendants of voters had the effect of disenfranchising others? (particularly when it actually didn't!) JohnC ( talk) 02:26, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
According to this article, poll taxes were created in America in the late 19th Century after the passage of the 15th Amendment (1870). Strange then that the article on Thoreau mentions his delinquent poll tax from several decades earlier: "On July 24 or July 25, 1846, Thoreau ran into the local tax collector, Sam Staples, who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes." So when were poll taxes actually started in the US? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.168.171.236 ( talk) 14:29, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
This article as written contains a number of confusions. I have merged the correct stuff from here with the article Tax per head -- though that article will soon be renamed Poll tax. Mikedelsol ( talk) 18:44, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Meant to put this here a while back, but there's a relevant move request taking place at Talk:Tax per head.-- Yaksar (let's chat) 18:53, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: withdrawn. Srnec ( talk) 20:14, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Poll tax (United States) →
Poll tax – Per an RM at
Talk:Tax per head there is no consensus for the change the user who moved the page was trying to implement. Restore the status quo. –
Srnec (
talk)
02:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Readers of this article need to be able easily to see some reference (perhaps a disambiguation cross-reference) to the article on "poll tax" (in the sense of "Tax per head" or "Capitation"). Maybe there is some other way to handle this, but as it now stands it is confusing for a reader who searches for "poll tax (United States)" on Wikipedia and is led to believe that "poll" necessarily refers to voting and election polling places, which would be a mistaken belief. Thanks. 74.96.103.251 ( talk) 00:50, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
In the table Poll taxes by state, a column could be added to show the inflated price at implementation year using Template:Inflation, ie: 1$ at 1850 is currently worth 37$.
User:Srnec has (twice) modified this article to eliminate the useful link to tax, and (once) to eliminate the hatnote for a disambiguation page listing articles about poll taxes in other jurisdictions. I hope we can discuss the situation here rather than engaging in an edit war.
The disambiguation page includes a link to the generic poll tax article, and lists subsidiary articles about historic poll taxes in Canada, Great Britain, Lithuania, New Zealand, and this article about the United States. The generic main article has become uncomfortably large at 40 Kbyte by including subsidiary sections on each of the situations covered by the listed articles, which would discourage merging the contents of this article.
The principle interest in the subject of poll taxes seems to be study of arguably inappropriate historical use of such taxes. It may debatable whether individuals from that interest group would better find this information through studying the history of a specific location or through the generic subject Poll tax. I suggest the present article language assumes the latter course, while those taking the former course may benefit from a descriptive link to tax and by hatnote notification of both the main article and other articles on the subject for purposes of comparison.
I am prepared to make such edits in the absence of objections. Thewellman ( talk) 17:54, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
The article does not mention the Californian Alien Poll Tax of the early 20th Century. DuncanHill ( talk) 23:32, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
This article currently states that the state of Massachusetts had a poll tax between the years 1865 and 1890, this cannot be correct. Henry David Thoreau was famously imprisoned for refusing to pay a poll tax while living in the state of Massachusetts but he died in the year 1862 so Massachusetts obviously had a poll tax implemented earlier than the year 1865. In his essay Civil Disobedience, which was published in 1849, Thoreau says he was put in prison for not paying his poll tax over a period of six years (the day or year he was imprisoned is not mentioned). Based on this information the latest that Massachusetts could have first implemented a poll tax would have been 1843 but it was likely implemented much earlier than that so more research will have to be done to determine the actual date it was implemented. Jwsxyz ( talk) 03:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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Shouldn't we put a link or some reference to the UK Poll Tax ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Charge and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_Tax_Riots) ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.57.5.123 ( talk) 06:58, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
1381 Poll Tax Rising aka The Peasants' Revolt in England doesn't even appear in the article !!! 85.76.147.45 ( talk) 20:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Poll taxes were imposed in British colonial Africa as well; see http://www.cas.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/zcolpol.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiki butler ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be some explanation why a law giving voting rights to descendants of voters had the effect of disenfranchising others? (particularly when it actually didn't!) JohnC ( talk) 02:26, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
According to this article, poll taxes were created in America in the late 19th Century after the passage of the 15th Amendment (1870). Strange then that the article on Thoreau mentions his delinquent poll tax from several decades earlier: "On July 24 or July 25, 1846, Thoreau ran into the local tax collector, Sam Staples, who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes." So when were poll taxes actually started in the US? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.168.171.236 ( talk) 14:29, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
This article as written contains a number of confusions. I have merged the correct stuff from here with the article Tax per head -- though that article will soon be renamed Poll tax. Mikedelsol ( talk) 18:44, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Meant to put this here a while back, but there's a relevant move request taking place at Talk:Tax per head.-- Yaksar (let's chat) 18:53, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: withdrawn. Srnec ( talk) 20:14, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Poll tax (United States) →
Poll tax – Per an RM at
Talk:Tax per head there is no consensus for the change the user who moved the page was trying to implement. Restore the status quo. –
Srnec (
talk)
02:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Readers of this article need to be able easily to see some reference (perhaps a disambiguation cross-reference) to the article on "poll tax" (in the sense of "Tax per head" or "Capitation"). Maybe there is some other way to handle this, but as it now stands it is confusing for a reader who searches for "poll tax (United States)" on Wikipedia and is led to believe that "poll" necessarily refers to voting and election polling places, which would be a mistaken belief. Thanks. 74.96.103.251 ( talk) 00:50, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
In the table Poll taxes by state, a column could be added to show the inflated price at implementation year using Template:Inflation, ie: 1$ at 1850 is currently worth 37$.
User:Srnec has (twice) modified this article to eliminate the useful link to tax, and (once) to eliminate the hatnote for a disambiguation page listing articles about poll taxes in other jurisdictions. I hope we can discuss the situation here rather than engaging in an edit war.
The disambiguation page includes a link to the generic poll tax article, and lists subsidiary articles about historic poll taxes in Canada, Great Britain, Lithuania, New Zealand, and this article about the United States. The generic main article has become uncomfortably large at 40 Kbyte by including subsidiary sections on each of the situations covered by the listed articles, which would discourage merging the contents of this article.
The principle interest in the subject of poll taxes seems to be study of arguably inappropriate historical use of such taxes. It may debatable whether individuals from that interest group would better find this information through studying the history of a specific location or through the generic subject Poll tax. I suggest the present article language assumes the latter course, while those taking the former course may benefit from a descriptive link to tax and by hatnote notification of both the main article and other articles on the subject for purposes of comparison.
I am prepared to make such edits in the absence of objections. Thewellman ( talk) 17:54, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
The article does not mention the Californian Alien Poll Tax of the early 20th Century. DuncanHill ( talk) 23:32, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
This article currently states that the state of Massachusetts had a poll tax between the years 1865 and 1890, this cannot be correct. Henry David Thoreau was famously imprisoned for refusing to pay a poll tax while living in the state of Massachusetts but he died in the year 1862 so Massachusetts obviously had a poll tax implemented earlier than the year 1865. In his essay Civil Disobedience, which was published in 1849, Thoreau says he was put in prison for not paying his poll tax over a period of six years (the day or year he was imprisoned is not mentioned). Based on this information the latest that Massachusetts could have first implemented a poll tax would have been 1843 but it was likely implemented much earlier than that so more research will have to be done to determine the actual date it was implemented. Jwsxyz ( talk) 03:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)