What was the purpose of a poll tax?

The purpose of a pole tax is to make it difficult for all people to vote.

The poll tax had two purposes:

1). Raise a little bit of revenue for the city, county, or state.

2). Decrease the number of the non-rich riff-raff or the genuinely poor who would turn out to vote.

Today, poll taxes are illegal. So the party of the Rich has to turn to other methods, like ...

-- close the polls at 5:00 , so that working people who can't get time off to vote, won't.

-- require a government-issued photo-ID in order to vote.

-- make up specious reasons that favor the wealthy, to delete names from voter registration rolls.

they were byzantines

abraham was promised great blessings by god, both to himself and his family, including all of his descendants. those blessings are called the abrahamic covenant.

the abrahamic covenant bible story has three main features:

1. the promised land of canaan (gen 12: 1) (gen 15: 7).

2. the promise of offspring to a 75-year-old childless abraham (genesis 12: 2) (gen 15: 4-6) (gen 17: 6-8).

3. the promise of blessings and redemption to abraham and the families of the earth through him. (genesis 12: 3).

finally, god gave abraham the rite of circumcision as the specific sign of the abrahamic covenant (genesis 17: 9–14).