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To: johnnycap
-I agree with this and have been saying this for a long time. Citizenship should be just as hard or harder to get than a driver’s license. Also, if you don’t pay any taxes, you don’t get the right to vote. You have to have skin in the game. Voting to limit another person’s rights when you have nothing at risk is another form of tyranny.

Disagree.

If you want to change the rules - change the Constitution via the constitutionally required process. Otherwise, please don't advocate for a buearacracy to decide what counts or doesn't count for boot camp, or passing.

Your position assumes that tax burden implies a right to vote. Should corporations have the right to vote based on their tax burden to the government? If not, why not under your plan? How about a disabled veteran? If they can no longer earn and therefore pay taxes, should they not have the right to vote. What amount of tax is adequate? Can my 7 year old vote since they pay sales tax on items I make them buy for themselves?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I think you are missing your own point, and one that you have very insightfully noted:

Voting to limit another person’s rights when you have nothing at risk is another form of tyranny.

That is the issue, and you are 100% correct in my opionion. But the issue here isn't necessarily the voter in my onion, it is the actions of the representative who won the vote that is of issue.

They have for far too long limited "another persons rights" whther that be through the lack of due process in the tidal wave of administrative rules forced upon citizens, or taking their money by force through taxes.

The erosion of the rule of law, and in some cases the outright abuse of it, is the underlying problem. IMHO

44 posted on 02/16/2009 12:43:51 PM PST by !1776!
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To: !1776!

Admirable but not likely to happen. If you want to be a constitutional purist, let’s go back to the voting rights of 1787. I’d be fine with that...and since the bureaucracy necessary to validate voter qualification is so hard for you to get your head around, perhaps we should get rid of drivers’ licenses too because it’s just so hard to administer.

Or, maybe you could just take the citizenship test at the DMV, just pick test A for driving or B for voting. Gee, that was tough.


52 posted on 02/16/2009 5:44:56 PM PST by johnnycap
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