[seastay]

This is too good to be true, we may soon be able to renounce are citizenship, but retain the right to vote, as described, and we can still work, bank, own property, be issued drivers license, yet we won't have to pay taxes, be accountable for crimes or have to pay back our loans!

[cyborg]

Bloomberg would do it too... big mistake

[Mr. Mojo]

Insanity

[Paul C. Jesup]

This is too good to be true, we may soon be able to renounce are citizenship, but retain the right to vote, as described, and we can still work, bank, own property, be issued drivers license, yet we won't have to pay taxes, be accountable for crimes or have to pay back our loans!

It does not work that way, if you renouce your citzenship, you lose your right to vote and you have to continue paying US income tax for the next ten years. While on the other hand a illegal immigrant can come into the country and has the right to medical treatment, to vote and does not have to pay any Federal taxes.

This is one of the major reasons I don't think the Federal Government of this country has much future left.

[Dinsdale]

yet we won't have to pay taxes, be accountable for crimes or have to pay back our loans!

What do any of these things have to do with citizenship?

[dagnabbit]

Hey why not? Why keep pretending that a nation-state with shared values and language, and meaningful borders exists anymore? Put up the "NAFTA Central Zone" flag and be done with it.

[CurlyDave]

...voice on local issues ranging from sewer improvements to public school construction for everyone who pays local taxes.

I would really like to see voting restricted to citizens who are taxpayers.

There is no good reason why we should allow freeloaders to vote themselves more and more of our tax money.

For anyone who doesn't like the concept I have three words: Get a job.

[Yalta]

If you're a liberal reporter, how do you push your agenda of allowing illegal aliens to vote?

Well, first you adjust a few words and come up with the harmless-sounding phrase "immigrant voting rights".

Then, you put that phrase in an article, and throw in a few stock phrases like "a movement is growing", to make the reader feel like he is in the minority if he is opposed. Presto! By careful selection of language, you have tricked your readers into supporting something called "immigrant voting rights".

When one labels the issue truthfully, as "allowing illegal alines to vote", it has no support. But through a simple linguistic transformation, readers are deceived, and are made to support that which they would normally find repugnant.

We used to call that simple linguistic transformation by another name -- lying. But that was a long time ago.

[quadrant]

The idea of allowing non-citizens to vote is so crazy that even The New York Times is opposed.

[quadrant]

The idea of allowing non-citizens to vote is so crazy that even The New York Times is opposed.

[GOP_1900AD]

In a time when we ought to be making membership in this club known as the USA *more exclusive* these suicidal voices are gaining in intensity. I really wonder how much longer we can remain viable as a nation. To be fair, we (e.g. those of us who call ourselves conservatives) carry our share of blame. When I write the "N" word (Nationalism) on this forum, the epithets, ad hominem attacks, and all other sorts of BS start to fly. If we can't even get our act together on the Right, and agree regarding Borders, Language and Culture, there is no hope; none whatever.

[VadeRetro]

Immigrants' voting rights becoming a major issue

Screw 'em until they become citizens. (And we should be very selective of whom we allow to become citizens.)

[azhenfud]

Anyone believing this would be contained to local elections, send me your name and a $10 bill - QUICK!!

[goldstategop]

You don't have to be an American to vote. Why bother having a country if every one gets to have a say here? <sarcasm

[Uncle Hal]

Officials in San Francisco talked about allowing non citizens to vote a few years ago and it died on the vine. Considering the mood in CA., where they will not allow illegals to get drivers licenses, I think the voters are in no mood to allow non citizens, legal or not, the right to vote. Also, the CA. constitution requires all voters in the state to be US citizens.