Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes and other taxes in federal elections. It was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. The United ...

you would assume most voters consider their taxes a main issue this election cycle. Well, according to a new Gallup poll, you’d be wrong. Profit and prosper with the best of expert advice on ...

Johnetta Williams was so delighted to vote in the 1960 presidential election that the $1.75 poll tax didn’t much bother her.

Alvin Finkel Since the 1970s the proliferation of social histories has challenged once-dominant historical paradigms focused ...

Hiking national insurance will become Labour's 'poll tax', Rachel Reeves has been warned. In the most vehement criticism yet, business leaders reacted with fury as Treasury officials refused to ...

Professor Robert Bartlett tells the story of how thousands of armed peasants stormed London in protest against the king’s poll tax, attacking property and people in power. Contemporary images ...

This happened with the 1370s poll tax, which led to the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. Description When harvests failed and food became scarce, people had to steal food to stay alive. For example ...

The Institute of Directors warned today that the move would be Labour's 'poll tax' moment, in reference to the carnage that engulfed Margaret Thatcher's government. Economists have made clear ...

The 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes and other taxes in federal elections. It was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. The United States Supreme Court later expanded the reach of the ...