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Put it on the ballot.

Your state just voted in favor of the poll tax. 

Incorrect.

Very correct.
It's only because of a FEDERAL ruling that they don't have a poll tax. Take that away, and Alabama has a poll tax that was just upheld by a majority of voters.

[opebo]

Then the progressive income tax blatantly violates equal protection. We're going in circles now, so get it through your head.

No, the progressive income tax does not treat people unequally.  No one is banned from getting income, and the percentages charged are exactly the same for all people at each level of income.

[A18]

Yeah, and marriage does not treat people unequally - no one is banned from marrying someone of the opposite sex.

[opebo]

Yeah, and marriage does not treat people unequally - no one is banned from marrying someone of the opposite sex.

In fact one might say it is an infringment upon all our freedom and privacy to limit our choices so arbitrarily.  I naturally resent such oppression, even though I have no desire to marry anyone, female or male. 

[A18]

One might say the income tax is an infringment upon all our freedom to interact in the economy as we please. I naturally resent such oppression, even though I'll probably never be in the upper income brakets.

[opebo]

One might say the income tax is an infringment upon all our freedom to interact in the economy as we please. I naturally resent such oppression, even though I'll probably never be in the upper income brakets.

It is very odd that your libertarian impluses are so selective.  What have you got against gays?  Really they're on the whole just as nice as the rich.. probably nicer.

Certainly it is a grave injustice that Bill Gates has to pay a higher tax rate than the fellow working at McDonalds.. however it is obvious that he is suffering a less irksome state oppression than homosexuals who are utterly barred from what they see as a life of marital bliss.  I think your libertiarianism is selective and unprincipled.

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And wealthy people are being denied equal protection due to income profiling.

Income is not a property that you are born with and is unchangable or, like religion, is almost impossible to change.

Actually, plenty of people, like George W Bush are born rich.

Wealth and income are two very different things.  A wealthy person can still have zero income and not be subject to any income tax.