Georgia's New Poll Tax

Georgia's New Poll Tax (NYTimes)

First paragraph pretty much says it all:

In 1966, the Supreme Court held that the poll tax was unconstitutional. Nearly 40 years later, Georgia is still charging people to vote, this time with a new voter ID law that requires many people without driver's licenses - a group that is disproportionately poor, black and elderly - to pay $20 or more for a state ID card. Georgia went ahead with this even though there is not a single place in the entire city of Atlanta where the cards are sold. The law is a national disgrace.

Requiring people to pay 20 dollars for an ID card if they do not have a drivers license so
they can vote, is in fact a direct violation of the Constitution of the United States.
It is a poll tax by proxy, if you will.

And notice that most of the argument made by the crazed right all over "cyberspace" and elsewhere is framed around the victims again. J
ust like the Neo-Con talking points and lies were in the days after Katrina hit the south.

If you can't afford it, they that's your own fault.
If you are poor, that's your fault.

We are truly doomed as a country unless we turn some things around.