Mrs. Thatcher's Poll Tax - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily

Mrs. Thatcher's Poll Tax - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily: "since democracy is based on the concept of one man or woman, one vote, it would seem no more than fitting to have a principle of one man, one tax. Equal voting, equal taxation."

"a poll tax is a charge levied on a person's very existence, and the person must often be hunted down at great expense to be forced to pay the tax. Charging a man for his very existence seems to imply that the government owns all of its subjects, body and soul."