Posted on 07/13/2010 7:44:53 AM PDT by SmartInsight
In Australia, it's against the law for citizens age 18 or older not to vote.
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow William Galston has proposed that America adopt the same system to increase voter participation. In the 2008 presidential election, 61.7 percent of eligible Americans voted, according to George Mason University.
I object.
For one thing, Washington should not coerce citizens by making them vote. In a free country, those who do not wish to vote should be free to abstain.
And while there is no proving that higher turnout means more left-leaning votes, political scientists of both stripes tend to believe that mandatory voting delivers more votes to the left than to the right. Again, quantity does not mean quality.
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-PJ
We're already there. If you don't vote, someone will vote on your behalf.
-PJ
Patience, grasshopper. One must grow up before one calls others a “jackass”.
complusary voting is why Brazil is so poor and socialist. Corrupt politicans throw small amounts of money around the favelas, make promises, and the stupid vote regularly for the socialists. Since the extremely poor and stupid vastly outnumber the educated, Brazil can never make much progress. Of couse, the socialists know this, which is why there is so much poverty.
Stop paying your taxes and see if you really own yourself.
You are so right.
I had reason a few years ago to search some tax records in my sparsely populated county on the north Gulf of Mexico.
The owner of a quarter section of land on the sandy beach lost it due to his inability to pay $15 in taxes during the Great Depression.
So called property owners actually rent their land.
Don’t take my vote away.
I work hard and have zero debt. Why should I be punished because I don’t own a house?
The first mistake was letting non-land holders vote.
The second mistake, to my chagrin as a female, was giving the vote to women. JMHO
No, in fact, I think people who don’t pay income taxes SHOULDN’T get to vote. You don’t pay in, you don’t get to decide how it gets spent.
Next question.
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