Examples of poll tax in the following topics:
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- The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
- President Johnson called the amendment a "triumph of liberty over restriction" and "a verification of people's rights. " States that maintained the poll tax were more reserved.
- Mississippi's Attorney General, Joe Patterson, complained about the complexity of two sets of voters - those who paid their poll tax and could vote in all elections, and those who had not and could only vote in federal elections
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
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- Early on, violence and intimidation was used to keep Black voters away from the polls.
- These included poll taxes requiring payment before voting, and literacy and understanding tests, strict residency requirements and new voter registration rules.
- In 1962, the twenty-fourth amendment to the Constitution prohibited congress or states from restricting voting through poll taxes.
- Once again, grassroots groups and social movement leaders worked to register voters and get them to the polls.
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- These included literacy tests, a poll tax, and if all else failed, intimidation by threats of violence.
- Assuming that low turnout is a reflection of disenchantment or indifference, a poll with very low turnout may not be an accurate reflection of the will of the people.
- These included literacy tests, a poll tax, and if all else failed intimidation by threats of violence.
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- Even after the 14th Amendment, native people not paying taxes were not counted for representation.
- These included poll taxes and literacy tests.
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- Websites such as Facebook and YouTube not only allow students acquire information about the polls, but also allow them to share their excitement over the polls and candidates.
- Poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation kept black voters from the polls.
- However, Asian Americans who have been victims of hate crimes or consider themselves to be part of a deprived group find their way to the polls in greater numbers.
- Much of the Christian right's power within the American political system is attributed to their extraordinary turnout rate at the polls.
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- A benchmark poll is generally the first poll taken in a campaign.
- Brushfire polls are polls taken during the period between the benchmark and tracking polls.
- An entrance poll is a poll that is taken before voters cast their votes.
- Like all opinion polls, exit polls by nature do include a margin of error.
- A straw poll or straw vote is a poll with nonbinding results.
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- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry criticized U.S. firms that outsource jobs abroad or that incorporate overseas in tax havens to avoid paying their "fair share" of U.S. taxes during his 2004 campaign, calling such firms "Benedict Arnold corporations. "
- A Zogby International poll conducted in August 2004 found that 71% of American voters believed that "outsourcing jobs overseas" hurt the economy while another 62% believed that the U.S. government should impose some legislative action against companies that transfer domestic jobs overseas, possibly in the form of increased taxes on companies that outsource.
- Another given rationale is the high corporate income tax rate in the U.S. relative to other OECD nations, and the uncommonness of taxing revenues earned outside of U.S. jurisdiction.
- It is argued that lowering the corporate income tax and ending the double-taxation of foreign-derived revenue (taxed once in the nation where the revenue was raised, and once from the U.S.) will alleviate corporate outsourcing and make the U.S. more attractive to foreign companies.
- However, while the US has a high official tax rate, the actual taxes paid by US corporations may be considerably lower due to the use of tax loopholes, tax havens, and "gaming the system. " Rather than avoiding taxes, outsourcing may be mostly driven by the desire to lower labor costs (see standpoint of labor above).
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- The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
- The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.
- The Literary Digest soon went out of business, while polling started to take off.
- Elmo Roper was another American pioneer in political forecasting using scientific polls.
- By the 1950s, various types of polling had spread to most democracies.
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- Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
- Gallup currently has four divisions: Gallup Poll, Gallup Consulting, Gallup University, and Gallup Press.
- In 1958 the modern Gallup Organization was formed from a merger of several polling organizations.
- The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
- For the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Gallup was rated 17th out of 23 polling organizations in terms of the precision of its pre-election polls relative to the final results.
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- Citizens and residents are taxed on worldwide income and allowed a credit for foreign taxes.
- State taxes are generally treated as a deductible expense for federal tax computation.
- Certain alternative taxes may apply.
- Sales tax is collected by the seller at the time of sale, or remitted as use tax by buyers of taxable items who did not pay sales tax.
- Similar to federal income taxes, federal estate and gift taxes are imposed on worldwide property of citizens and residents and allow a credit for foreign taxes.