{"id":1705,"date":"2010-04-01T05:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/poll-tax-the-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T05:41:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:41:49","slug":"poll-tax-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/poll-tax-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"poll tax &#038; the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\"><p>in November 1990 South Yorkshire police said they were planning to refuse to arrest poll tax defaulters even when instructed to by the courts because it would be &#8220;physically impossible for the police because of the large number of defaulters.&#8221;<sup class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community_Charge#cite_note-1\"><span>[<\/span>2<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> Hence the government was reduced to issuing threatening pieces of paper which it couldn&#8217;t act upon &#8211; and the non-payers knew this. The second year of the poll tax saw an increase in non-payment as people who had been wavering saw how ineffective the government was and decided to join the non-payment campaign<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community_Charge\">en.wikipedia.org<\/a><\/div>\n<p>community charge (poll tax) replaced with 2.5 increase in VAT then the council tax. similar rating system used.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.briangreene.com\/poll-tax-and-the-people\">web lab<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in November 1990 South Yorkshire police said they were planning to refuse to arrest poll tax defaulters even when instructed to by the courts because it would be &#8220;physically impossible for the police because of the large number of defaulters.&#8221;[2] Hence the government was reduced to issuing threatening pieces of paper which it couldn&#8217;t act&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/poll-tax-the-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">poll tax &#038; the people<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}