| There would have been no poll tax, race riots, rail privatisation and less industrial dereliction. |
| John Major's Tory government introduced the council tax in 1993 to replace the hated poll tax. |
| Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income. |
| The poll tax revolts are a warning of the fury that changes to local authority finances can trigger. |
| But the worst was an old bird who shouted at me about the poll tax and blamed me for Black Wednesday. |
| Already the voices of protest are growing louder and scenes reminiscent of the poll tax rebellion may not be far away. |
