[Ohioan]

See my post #11. The fair way to handle this is to restrict the suffrage to those who do not accept unearned benefits from Governments. Obviously those who receive Veterans' benefits have earned them; but there are all sorts of benefits being paid today to those who have not earned them. Those "entitlements" are what are bankrupting the Governments, State & Federal.

William Flax

[Hugin]

So are Social Security and Medicare “unearned” in your book? I’ve been paying into them for 40 years now.

[Josa]

I agree with the premise that if you are receiving food stamps, welfare, etc. then you are not eligible to vote during the time you are receiving those benefits. Many welfare recipients are like children, expecting for their every need to be supplied by someone else. We don’t let our children vote so why should we let child-like adults vote?