Re: per head

On Aug 26, 5:34 am, cybercypher <cybercyphe...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

Restaurants charge per per meal. not by head.

Some -- maybe most -- all-you-can-eat places don't serve meals;
therefore, they charge by the head.
[snip]

This excerpt from Wiki's entry for "poll tax" seems pertinent:

A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed
amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). ... The
word poll is an English word that once meant "head", hence the name
poll tax for a per-person tax. However, in the United States, the term
has come to be used almost exclusively for a fixed tax applied to
voting. Since "going to the polls" is a common idiom for voting
(deriving from the fact that early voting involved head-counts), a new
folk etymology has supplanted common knowledge of the phrase's true
origins in America.
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