Expired Graffiti

'Seen the news recently hotshot?'

Here is another piece of graffiti that's on a wall not too far from our house which always makes me chuckle internally. The Poll Tax (aka Community Charge) was a staggeringly unpopular form of local taxation that contributed to the downfall of Thatcher and caused huge riots in London. It lasted only 3 years from 1990 to 1993 before it was replaced with the less contentious Council Tax which is still in place today. Poll Tax was a system that (roughly speaking) meant that if you were over 18 yrs old and had a head you had to pay Poll Tax. This meant that households with 4 adults living in it paid shed loads more than the multimillionaire singletons living in their mansions ... there was talk at the time of going back to the 17th Century Window Tax or the earlier Hearth Tax but in the end they went for a property value (or brick location) tax which hasn't caused any riots to date.
... I wonder whether the original 'political artist' of this graffiti ever thinks 'I really must get round to going back and painting over that graffiti' whenever they pay their Council Tax bill.