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To: verga

Property requirements should be a requirement. One needs to have something to lose when voting. This perpetuates the capitalist system. Letting lazy people with nothing to show for their lives, vote, will cause people to vote themselves ‘free ‘ stuff. That you and I who work must pay for it.

By property I don’t necessarily mean real estate. A healthy portfolio either defered retirement or not should be one form of required property.


61 posted on 05/09/2014 7:05:00 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero
By property I don’t necessarily mean real estate. A healthy portfolio either defered retirement or not should be one form of required property.

One advantage of requiring the voter to own real property (a home, a business, etc), is that he directly and immediately stands to lose if the people he votes for adversely affect the business climate or property values in his area.

64 posted on 05/09/2014 7:33:28 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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