The late scholar of South Asia Bernard Cohn did extensive work on the first Census conducted by the British in India, pointing out that their Census had a mercantile, extractive goal--after all, counting the subjects of a state is a prerequisite for taxing them.
This reversal by itself should bother the economic conservatives who believe that ever-lower taxes are a prerequisite for growth.
In 1966 the Supreme Court, going beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment, ruled that under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections.
One of movement's spokeswomen, Jacline Mouraud, told AFP that scrapping the fuel tax was a "prerequisite for any discussion" with the government.
But Assembly GOP Leader Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley called it a "fundamentally flawed" premise to assume that new taxes were a prerequisite on either issue.
A host of prominent economists have argued that the Cadillac tax is a prerequisite for getting health care costs under control -- discouraging consumers from buying high-end packages and encouraging insurers to offer effective, low-cost alternatives.
From the customer's perspective a dense network of charging stations and financial measures such as tax and energy cost reductions are vital prerequisites in order to convince them to buy an electric vehicle.
When payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished blacks and often poor whites, unable to afford the tax, were denied the right to vote.
There is no law of economics that says record-low tax revenues are the prerequisite to a thriving economy.
If you disagree, then ask yourself where is the prerequisite federal tax increase for the recent $80 billion increase to the military budget?
"We are writing to express our interest in working with you on bipartisan tax reform," said the letter, which then cited "prerequisites" for Democratic participation that Republicans would likely find hard to swallow.
