Yes, we pay a lot for healthcare. That doesn’t make healthcare spending a tax, let alone a poll tax. Yet that’s the argument put forward by two world-renowned economists in the Washington Post.

Web Exclusive Righting a Wrong The 24th amendment prohibiting the poll tax on voters has been formally approved by the state of Texas—more than four decades later.

A leading voting rights advocate has compared the SAVE Act, a bill requiring Americans to provide paper proof of citizenship to vote, to a poll tax.. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act ...