and Wisconsin. Poll taxes had been a major source of government funding among the colonies which formed the United States. Poll taxes made up from one-third...

Head taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments from ancient times until the 19th century. In the United Kingdom, poll taxes were levied...

inheritance taxes began after 1900, while the states (but not the federal government) began collecting sales taxes in the 1930s. The United States imposed...

to: Poll tax (Great Britain), officially the "Community Charge", a former system of local taxation in the late 20th century Poll taxes in the United States...

the Nineteenth Amendment, women) from voting. Use of the poll taxes by states was held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States...

The women's poll tax repeal movement was a movement in the United States, predominantly led by women, that attempted to secure the abolition of poll taxes...

in the United States Other federal taxation: Capital gains tax in the United States Corporate tax in the United States US State taxes: Sales taxes in...

2017 tax cuts. Trump has argued that keeping taxes low for the wealthy increases job creation. Trump's stated trade policy involves the United States decoupling...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the...

western states in contravention of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. 1951 Butler v. Thompson is heard by the Supreme Court which rules that poll taxes are...