I was forced to pay this damn tax in 1992/93. The last year it was in force before it changed to council tax. Got it reduced to 20% but that sill meant paying around £100. A lot of money for an 18 year old only on unemployment benefit of roughly £38 a week.
Well council tax is much higher now as well as income taxes and I don’t know what else and you are all still flat broke so … congratulations. All that rioting in the nineties and where were you all when they introduced the lockdowns, green policies that mean you can’t drive your car and such like? Where were all of you when Tony and his lot shut down the last vestiges of U.K. industry and started two wars? Where were you all when those girls were being gang raped in Telford and Rotchdale and elsewhere? Pay a bit of tax on you own income and it’s world war three but everyone else can bog off can they? You people were and are a joke. You aren’t Englishmen of old you are all squatters and it’s a good thing the country is going to the dogs because it would be a damn shame to see it limp on like it does now for much longer.
Now you are forced to pay even more. The poll tax is the least evil tax ever, it is fair as everyone pays the same amount to the government regardless if you work or no so people who leech off also must pay so they are more likely to find a job. With the Poll tax introduced we would scrap the Income Tax (Corporate and Personal). I think 18 year olds are too young as well so we could enforce it on anyone after 20-25. It is also the cheapest tax to collect and it would make the government unaware of how much we earn thus increasing our privacy and the government wouldn't need additional beaurocracts to estimate people's earnings, just take a certain amount from everyone.
@@daviniarobbins9298 Nowhere near. About £375 in today's money. The poll tax was still unfair though. It was wrong to expect someone living in a 2 bed semi to pay the same as a person living in a mansion.
@@madwatermelon1316 i disagree, a person makes the same amount of waste/ work for councils, regardless of the size of house they live in. what relevance is the size of the house when it comes to the amount of work the council has to do? I agree with thatcher on this one, everyone should pay towards the services, everyone is benefiting from them equally. you all have the streets lit, bins taken and use the same public parks. and have the same public libraries. why should someone with a larger house pay more just so others can pay less
@@MinkieWinkle For the simple reason that someone earning a low wage, living in a bedsit could not afford to pay the poll tax. Whereas council tax or the old "rates system" took that into account and is more manageable. Many working class, lower middle class, people, in marginal, tory constituencies were finding themselves thousands of pounds a year worse under the poll tax. It was very badly implemented and was actually costing local governments more to collect it. Thatcher did some wonderful things in her earlier years as prime minister but on this she got it badly wrong and subsequently she lost her job. She would have probably been in office for a while longer had it not been for that shambles.
I was forced to pay this damn tax in 1992/93. The last year it was in force before it changed to council tax. Got it reduced to 20% but that sill meant paying around £100. A lot of money for an 18 year old only on unemployment benefit of roughly £38 a week.
Well council tax is much higher now as well as income taxes and I don’t know what else and you are all still flat broke so … congratulations. All that rioting in the nineties and where were you all when they introduced the lockdowns, green policies that mean you can’t drive your car and such like? Where were all of you when Tony and his lot shut down the last vestiges of U.K. industry and started two wars? Where were you all when those girls were being gang raped in Telford and Rotchdale and elsewhere? Pay a bit of tax on you own income and it’s world war three but everyone else can bog off can they? You people were and are a joke. You aren’t Englishmen of old you are all squatters and it’s a good thing the country is going to the dogs because it would be a damn shame to see it limp on like it does now for much longer.
Now you are forced to pay even more. The poll tax is the least evil tax ever, it is fair as everyone pays the same amount to the government regardless if you work or no so people who leech off also must pay so they are more likely to find a job. With the Poll tax introduced we would scrap the Income Tax (Corporate and Personal). I think 18 year olds are too young as well so we could enforce it on anyone after 20-25. It is also the cheapest tax to collect and it would make the government unaware of how much we earn thus increasing our privacy and the government wouldn't need additional beaurocracts to estimate people's earnings, just take a certain amount from everyone.
I'd rather pay £170 pound poll tax than £1300 council tax....
£170 in 1991 was probably worth £1300 today, inflation. Or not far off.
@@daviniarobbins9298 Nowhere near. About £375 in today's money. The poll tax was still unfair though. It was wrong to expect someone living in a 2 bed semi to pay the same as a person living in a mansion.
@@madwatermelon1316 Why? What extra council services was the person in the mansion getting for their money?
@@madwatermelon1316 i disagree, a person makes the same amount of waste/ work for councils, regardless of the size of house they live in. what relevance is the size of the house when it comes to the amount of work the council has to do?
I agree with thatcher on this one, everyone should pay towards the services, everyone is benefiting from them equally. you all have the streets lit, bins taken and use the same public parks. and have the same public libraries. why should someone with a larger house pay more just so others can pay less
@@MinkieWinkle For the simple reason that someone earning a low wage, living in a bedsit could not afford to pay the poll tax. Whereas council tax or the old "rates system" took that into account and is more manageable. Many working class, lower middle class, people, in marginal, tory constituencies were finding themselves thousands of pounds a year worse under the poll tax. It was very badly implemented and was actually costing local governments more to collect it. Thatcher did some wonderful things in her earlier years as prime minister but on this she got it badly wrong and subsequently she lost her job. She would have probably been in office for a while longer had it not been for that shambles.
I love how a cutting-the-poll-tax story can somehow be spun as a bad thing...
I love how gutting local government funding can somehow be spun as a good thing.
Community Charge RAW!!!!!!!!!