A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.

像人头税一样，递减税占穷人收入的比例更大。

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The poll tax, a tax of the same amount from each person, made the masses suffer untold misery and hardship.

这种按人头征收的人头税，使得老百姓苦不堪言。

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So the Field Poll asked what it considered the easiest question: whether Proposition 13’s tax reduction applied “only to residential property taxes, only to commercial property taxes, or both”.

因此，费尔德民调问了一个它认为最简单的问题：13号法案的降低税收“仅适用于民用房产，仅适用于商用房产，还是两者都适用。

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Mr McConnell said the poll tax was one of the worst policies imposed by the Tories on Scotland.

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Those who regarded the poll tax as an evil abomination will, equally, neither forgive nor forget.

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That the poll tax was tried out in Scotland as some form of gruesome experiment.

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