There is not necessarily a link between "smarts" and intelligence. I can remember seeing grad students at Cal Tech walk into walls, trees, etc. while reading a book. Of course because they were intelligent they would remember what they'd read after they'd picked themselves up, found their glasses and book and gone on their way!
We don't want to go back to the days of denying the vote to citizens based on their gender or race. However, I do think it's time to restrict voting to those citizens who have skin in the game.
If you don't pay any income taxes, you don't get to vote. Very simple. It is patently illogical to let someone who doesn't pay into the pot have a say in how that pot gets distributed. Right now about 40% of workers pay no income tax. The way things are going in our free fall into socialism that percentage will soon reach 50% if not higher.
Face it--the politicians have had a form of this for a long time--they call it 'pay to play.' It's about time the same logic is applied to voting. I'm not talking about social security tax or cell phone tax or Budweiser bottles/cans tax or property taxes. I'm talking INCOME tax. You pay or you don't play.
I'd end by saying the Founding Fathers would approve but I'm sure they're still spinning in their hallowed graves since the concept of income tax was adopted. Meanwhile, I have to finish sorting my Survival Seeds.
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So you are denying ME the right to vote although I am intelligent and well-informed, even though I have been a devoted teacher all my life, working for the good of the community, just because I am so little paid for my past toil that I don't have to pay income tax now that I am retired... and poor? Thank God we think differently here!
No hard feelings though,
KT
My question to you is WHY AREN'T YOU PAYING TAXES? Everyone should be paying something! If you're not contributing to the national pot, you shouldn't have a say in how that pot is distributed. That's what I mean by ending universal suffrage and tying it to whether or not one pays taxes. Kick in some taxes and get to vote.
AMEN. Voting should not be easy. I would not limit suffrage to taxation. I'd like to see some sort of test be taken every two years. And not some eigth grade civics test discribing the "seperation of powers". I want a test heavy on economics, foreign policy, etc.
I know people would scream "I don't have time to keep up on that kind of stuff," or "that stuff is boring." How can we let ill-informed people decide where we go?
Think of what the summer before an election would be like. No attack add commercials trying to whip the masses up into a frenzy. No network coverage at all for that matter; why interrupt Dancing with the Stars?
I know it'll never happen, at least not willingly, but a guy can dream.
The masses are asses
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