Posted on 08/14/2012 4:47:26 PM PDT by SJackson
Or bankers or billionaires, if you can cook them, you can vote. I’ll bring the pot
I’d give up the vote so long as the government gives up taxing me.
This type of argument only helps our enemies. Do women have the natural right to be free or not?
No the question should be: should men have their votes revoked or end men’s suffrage.
Maybe we should take the vote away from black Americans since they only voted skin color in 2008.
How about ending suffrage for nontaxpayers?
What a pile of bullsqueeze!
Just damn....
Oh, goody. ANOTHER “Wimmin R Evil” thread. I’m shocked.
Government doesn’t give rights.
The author’s argument is insufficiently defined. Universal suffrage is the real failure, not the 19th Amendment.
Heinlein’s ideas of distinguishing civilian from citizen and that citizenship must be earned is looking better and better every day.
I think her husband is the one most suited to know a woman’s mind. Repeal the XIX Amendm’t and give married men 2 votes!
Shades of Swift
That would fix a lot of problems.
It’s whimsy, folks. Lighten up.
No, we should not, there’s really no sense behind the argument. Limiting the vote to tax-paying property owners and military veterans at least had a certain Grecian logic behind it, although I do point out that in Athens it was for a democracy, not a republic. Limiting it on the basis of genitalia is simply weird, and robs the polity of the direct influence of some of the brightest and most creative people in it.
You can be free and not vote. “Free” is relative.
That would probably be the closest to correct. Property owners and taxpayers. Everyone else, nope. The people who are going to legally have their pockets picked, they ought to be the ones voting.
If you have taken any government freebies (and have proven yourself to be a moocher), you have no right to elect those that will provide you with more freebies.
If you have committed crime, you have no right to elect those that will provide you with shelter and pardon. Once criminal, always a criminal.
If you are mentally retarded or incompetent, you have no right to elect retards that might think like you do or cater to your retarded desires.
If you have no paid any taxes, you have no right to tell the rest of us to how to spend our tax money.
Yep, sort of like a few years ago, when "The Man Show" did a "man on the street" segment with one of the guys circulating a petition to "End the Suffrage of Women", and dozens of women signed.
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