[Dubh_Ghlase]

New Law:

If you are on welfare (IE: A Ward of the state or country), your right to vote is rescinded until such time as you are a producer, not a taker.

In this way, those who are on the government dole do not have a say in maintaining and increasing their own largess, and politicians will stop playing to them as they would no longer be a voter-block that they can buy with OPM (ours, the producers).

[TomGuy]

If you are on welfare (IE: A Ward of the state or country), your right to vote is rescinded until such time as you are a producer, not a taker.

Such ideas won't work because they create class or caste systems, and those systems can change with future moods.

Restrict welfare recipients? Why not also restrict those on unemployment? Of those who do not hold a job that is recognized as an income-producing job by the state?

Or, reinstitute poll taxes. Except that the Dems would find a way to make the rest of the taxpayers pay the tax for those on welfare or those getting Food Stamp cards, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. ...