Via Newsbusters:
On the Thursday, January 23, PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton characterized voter ID laws as a “poll tax” as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of the abolition of poll taxes with the 24th Amendment’s passage.Even while acknowledging that the IDs are generally issued by states for free, Sharpton cited Attorney General Eric Holder and Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis in complaining that simply having to travel to obtain the free ID amounts to a tax. Sharpton began:
Finally tonight, a milestone in the fight for justice. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment ended the poll tax in federal elections that was used in the Jim Crow South to suppress the African-American vote. Here’s a receipt of a poll tax from Louisiana in 1917. Fifty years ago, they were eliminated. But today they are back in other forms, like voter ID laws.