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		NeedMoreTea on April 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Po... Council tax and poll tax before it were very clearly examples of trickle up taxes. Massively regressive compared to the rates. Yet no one is complaining, demonstrating or rioting.

randomsearch on April 21, 2019 [–]

They did protest and riot, but the government ignored them.

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