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    Join us who already live, voluntarily, in 'poverty': I never paid the poll tax, nor the council tax- Archived Message

    Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on January 16, 2020, 9:19 am, in reply to "Council tax. Here we go again."

    The poll tax because like many I was a straightforward refusenik, and as a footloose actor I was too much on the move to be traced and minced. In the case of it's replacement, the council tax, I've always been deemed 'too poor' to be eligible. All this whilst remaining throughout my life amongst the Pampered Twenty Percent of the world's people, and enjoying all the indulgent privileges that have been allowed to the PTP during the past few decades (force-subsidised, of course, by the ADEP: the Abused and Deprived Eighty Percent).

    Of course, such a strategy is much more difficult to make work if you live in a fixed house - unlike my boat - and work in one place for a long time, at a trade subject to PAYE (All through my sho-biz 'career' I was subject supposedly to the Schedule D, pay-in-arrears regimen; with which I never cooperated.) As usual, may I remind that all through this period I tithed voluntarily, as I still do, and supported a number of worthy causes, as I also still do, where - unlike with the tax-gatherers - I knew that my tithes would be put to good, honourable use. And unlike the taxation regimen of any state, which is always a protection racket, demanding money with menaces as the legal definition of blackmail puts it, all of this was, and is, voluntary; willingly done; mainly because of the bloodthirsty, deceitful, anti-democratic nature of the gangsterish ukstate.

    An atypical life; but doable. Remember that Thatcher's poll tax was destroyed by widespread refusenikery, strengthened by some serious rioting. What worked then will work again, as soon as enough plebs stand up together and say: "No!"

    Watch this space of post-Brexit Britain, as our increasingly-intolerable situation blows up again.

    Eventually, we may achieve in this currently-spavined state a taxation system which is fairly - and strictly - graded, according to wealth; where all consent - as I believe we should to an actually-just system - and the richest, both individuals and fat corporations, pay most; without exemptions. I would volunteer, as a citizen of such a civilised state, to pay whatever modest impost I was reckoned to owe. When will we get it, I wonder...?

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