When poll tax came in I was a naive lefty
I think you were a confused right winger reading your post.
I hadn’t spotted the big problem, which is that some people just don’t want to pay their share regardless and that’s the basic reason for its unpopularity.
That is a rather skewed view of it and it is perhaps fairer to say they did not want to pay an unfair tax. Introduced twice riots and overthrown by popular revolt /action both times… this happened with other taxes?
Those who think poll tax was unfair conveniently disregard the unfairness and anomolies inherent in the rates system it replaced, where the assumption was that your ability to pay was based on the value of your house.
Are you suggesting it is not true that rich people live in bigger and more expensive houses than poor people…can you evidence that?
So the large family on the breadline who needed a big house got stung for high rates whereas a wealthy single person in a flat paid very little. Little old ladies left in a large house after their family had moved on got stung for high rates even if they only had a pension to live on.
There are fairer ways of eliminating this issue than the poll tax which also meant that the little cleaner of the millionaires house both paid the same
And if you inherited a country estate you were completely stuffed even if you had no money at all.
I can only but imagine what it is like to inherent a country estate and have no money at all 🙄
The current system has an equal number of anomolies, and I haven’t seen any suggestions for any alternatives that I would consider fair regardless of your definition of fairness.
local income tax?