Posted on 09/06/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT by Twotone
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
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Only land owners should be allowed to vote.
Every American citizen has the right to vote.
Alzheimer patients get to sign up...Sick....but you know it is happening.
One should only be able to vote where one pays taxes.
If you don’t pay Fed taxes then you should be barred from voting in Federal elections.
If you don’t pay taxes in the state , you must not be allowed to vote in that state.
Agreed. Even those who don’t own property are affected by the decisions government makes. They also pay taxes in many ways and they contribute to the economy.
If the poor can’t vote, then I’m out.
If only land owners can vote, I’m out.
I’m DAMN sure not a Democrat, and I DAMN sure for conservatives. Why take my vote out? Yes, I understand the reason, but c’mon!
What nonsense. Just what taxes do you mean? Sales tax? Gasoline tax? Tax on alcohol? The money taken from the rent you pay which the land owner uses to pay tax? How about unemployment tax? What about money taken from your wages for FICA?
The idea of a system where by design citizens are shut out from having a voice in our government is repugnant in the extreme. To establish policy that furthers class division is playing right into the hands of radical liberalism.
What is repugnant in the extreme is the idea of a system where people can vote money out of your pocket and into theirs.
I’ll take silencing the parasites over that anytime.
I would say: Only citizens who pay federal income taxes should be allowed to vote; also active duty and retired military personnel, whether or not they earn enough to pay taxes.
There is only a finite amount of land available for ownership, and I would not deny the vote to anyone who works hard and positively contributes to our nation.
Yet the clear conflict of interest, over Federal entitlements, makes it mandatory that we reexamine this, before the worst prophesies of our future come home to roost. (See Universal Suffrage--Threat To Freedom.) The present debt crisis is directly attributable to allowing people to elect parasites who will feather their respective nests, rather than serve the intended Constitutional purpose of providing an economic environment that brings out the best, rather than the absolute worst, in the individual citizen.
If you receive an unearned benefit from the Federal Government, there ought to be an appropriate cut-off of voting rights for a period comparable to that in which your conflict of interest is apparent, plus two years--or some such..
William Flax
It happens at all levels, too — we vote for the politician who brings the most pork to our States. We may have only paid a small fraction in taxes of what is returned to us in pork.
I guess that is the system, however imperfect.
that’s primitive.
but we really should outlaw motor voter registrations, programs to asssist people to register, and voter registration advertisment campaigns.
If the tax code were revised so everyone payed a flat tax and our ridiculous progressive income tax were abolished, then I think you would agree, getting everyone to have ‘skin in the game’ would not be discriminatory.
William Flax
Everybody pays taxes, whether they know it or not. Not everybody pays INCOME TAX. But the working poor pay SS and Medicare, and everyone pays sales taxes, utility taxes, gas taxes, etc. plus they pay corporate income tax indirectly in the cost of everything they consume.
So are Social Security and Medicare “unearned” in your book? I’ve been paying into them for 40 years now.
Anyone can be a land owner in the USA.
Everyone can but you have to make the effort.
http://www.cheaplandinamerica.com/
See #11.
William Flax
Renters pay their landlord’s property taxes but get no deduction for it.
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