The tax 1) is regressive; 2) won't reduce teen smoking; and 3) won't be used to aid those who will disproportionately pay it.

Taxpayers in richer regions are made to subsidise the poorer ones, in much the same way as high earners, by paying disproportionately for public services, subsidise low earners.

Supporters say the overhaul will end costly tax challenges and make the system fairer by lowering taxes in poor and some middle-class communities that now pay disproportionately high taxes.

And I did that because I thought Bergen County, the suburban communities, were disproportionately paying the tax - defending a local interest.

Tenant groups have long contended that any relaxation of the rent regulations would most harm the poor and elderly, who already are paying disproportionately large shares of their income for housing.

They suffer unequally and unfairly, paying disproportionately for their own mistakes and for the whims of chance and the laws of global capitalism.

Since the town incorporated in 1998, its share of the school tax has risen to $900,000 from $300,000 and homeowners are once again grumbling about paying disproportionately for services they don't use.

The free peasants paid disproportionately high taxes compared to the other Estates and were sometimes unhappy because they wanted more rights.

Many fear they will pay disproportionately; others are proud of their role.

It also has one big negative; as with any consumption tax, it would be regressive, with those earning less money paying disproportionately more.