[PATRIOT1876]

Sort of like the poll tax the Dixierats had for black people in the 1960’s.

What other races shall we tax?

[blam]

You don't know what you're talking about. Albeit, it was directed at Blacks, it was not exclusively a tax on Blacks.

"In the United States, payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late 19th century as part of the Jim Crow laws. After the right to vote was extended to all races by the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a number of states enacted poll tax laws as a device for restricting voting rights. The laws often included a grandfather clause, which allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax. These laws, along with unfairly implemented literacy tests and extra-legal intimidation,[1] achieved the desired effect of disenfranchising African-American and Native American voters, as well as poor whites.

My mom and dad were poor farmer kids (young adults) and were paid $5.00 each to vote for FDR....way back when in Alabama.

[ladyjane]

Sort of like the poll tax the Dixierats had for black people in the 1960’s.

Let me guess. You grew up in the north and went to public school.

Northern states had poll taxes. Massachusetts had them until the 1960's. But then Massachusetts never had any laws against slavery, even during the Civil War.

Are you aware that in this country in the early days you had to be a landowner to vote? I wish we had that requirement today.

[GOPJ]

Democrats were wrong then - and they’d be wrong now. Democrats don’t change - just their choice of victim changes...