There should be a tax credit for voting and a tax penalty for not voting IMO
How would that be different than a poll tax, the kind used in the Jim Crow South, except in reverse.
Some countries, like Australia, fine people for not voting
If anything...a tax penalty for not voting is probably more efficient than giving people a fine
Muon 2 was not just making a moral point about the wrongfulness of imposing a poll tax. The U.S. has two laws that we cannot impose any tax on a citizen as a prerequisite for letting them vote. Those two laws are: 1) the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 2) the Supreme Court's precedent in
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 1966. Australia and other countries do not have such a difficult-to-repeal-law that prohibits poll taxes.