Poll Tax 1990 - A short survey of the history of the Community Charge as a method of financing local government, popularly known as the "Poll Tax". From the BBC History site.
Fiscal Anarchy - The UK's experience with the poll tax reminds us that even in an economy with a relatively well developed detection and legal system, one cannot take tax compliance for granted. The experience of the poll tax provides a unique opportunity to study many dimensions of tax compliance.
Mrs. Thatcher's Poll Tax - A critique of the Poll Tax from the American Libertarian Murray Rothbard. From his 1995 book "Making Economic Sense".
Poll Tax Nightmare - A typical leaflet produced by the non-payment campaign.
The Poll Tax: The Battle that Brought Down Thatcher - A history provided by the Trotskyite group, the Socialist Party, detailing the anti-Poll Tax campaign in which their forerunner "The Millitant Tendency" was prominent.
Rifkind Brands Poll Tax a Mistake - Former Scottish Secretary Malcolm Rifkind concedes that the poll tax was a great political error.
The Peasants' Revolt - Article in Britannia on this revolt against a medieval poll tax.
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Poll Tax Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Poll Tax
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Poll Tax The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Poll Tax
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Poll Tax Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Poll Tax
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Poll Tax I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Poll Tax
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Poll Tax A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Poll Tax
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Poll Tax It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Poll Tax
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Poll Tax The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Poll Tax
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Poll Tax Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Poll Tax
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Poll Tax It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Poll Tax
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Poll Tax "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Poll Tax
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Poll Tax Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Poll Tax
