Dai Loc--Christmas 2008

In 2008, Orphan Voice staff had the joy of celebrating Christmas with the children in the Dai Loc orphanage.

Christmas dinner was a time for good food and fellowship.

Popular rebellion has often accompanied oppressive taxation. Almost all the protests were against taxes that ignored the ability to pay. Here are just a few examples.

Poll Tax Rebellion (Britain)

The regime of Margaret Thatcher replaced local taxes on property with a single ‘flat’ tax per head of population. The tax proved cumbersome to collect and met with mounting resentment; one in five adults had to be summonsed for payment. On 31 March 1990 a massive demonstration in Trafalgar Square turned violent. By November 1991 Thatcher had resigned, the ‘poll tax’ widely cited as an immediate cause of her demise. It was shelved and replaced with a modified property tax.