pole tax

An income-skimming fee --- levied for either your being of east-of-Germany descent, or your possessing a long round-bodied appendage between yer legs --- dat is collected to fund da installation and maintenance of tall wooden posts along da roads for supporting utility-wires.

If I volunteer to occasionally work on da DOE road-crew, practice abstinence, and can prove my UK-area ancestry, could I be relieved of paying pole tax?