What is the name of the tax that muslims impose on infidels?
Jiza. Or some such spelling.
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the jizya ?
Jizya.....................
Jizya.
Not a tax. It was a ransom payment, $ for prisoners. It has not been the policy for the US government to pay ransoms (such a payment only encourages even MORE persons to be kidnapped).
The back story is that the Shah, while still in power, had committed the $400 million to the purchase of fighter aircraft and other armaments, but they were not delivered before the Shah was deposed, and the US government at the time (no matter what else you may have thought of Jimmy Carter) was not going to deliver arms to a hostile regime. The money became a moot point after Reagan ascended to the Presidency, as the Iranians were all too happy to have avoided what would have been a devastating invasion.
I do not care what rationalization the Current Regime may give for this deal, the optics are, ransom money was paid in exchange for the release of prisoners held by an illegitimate regime, no different than the pirates that rove the seas off the coast of Somalia.
In this country since 2009, it's called the "Federal Income Tax". In other countries, it's called the "Jizya Tax"