Originally people had to own property to be able to vote.
It should be returned to some version of this: People who either serve in the military or have a net paying IN TO the government, etc., should vote.
Those on the dole or who pay nothing should have no say.
Sounds tough to today's wimply ears but that is how it was back when things were sane.
You CAN NOT have people who do nothing but parasite off of others be allowed to vote.
Why? Because they eventually get the hang of it and vote for craven politicians (i.e., Rats) who give them everything in return for votes.
Then the country is destroyed, which ours almost is.
Sounds crazy to the public-skool educated person, but, it's reality.
I agree 100% and have been ranting for years that only people with their own skin in the game should get the vote.
There are only two possible mechanisms by which a person acquires money from someone else which they did not earn themselves via work (or investment): (1) Charity; (2) Theft.
Charity is voluntary.
Since paying taxes is not voluntary, and is in fact enforced at gunpoint, social entitlement programs are literally armed robbery, with the government acting as the proxy thief.
Thus, it is obscene that the recipients of social welfare programs are permitted to vote. If only the payers vote, and they still vote to sustain some level of social welfare safety net programs, I would actually be fine with it because at least then it would be legitimate charity.
I fail to understand how it can be considered “equality” that the vote of a deadbeat, drug-addicted petty loser carries the same weight as that of a hard-working, law-abiding pillar of the community. The former contributes nothing, even philosophically, to his society, while the latter is the very core of it. All a vote does is allow the deadbeat to steal the fruits of the worker’s labor.
I agree.