voting should be contingent on one thing: emancipation. the age at which you function as an independent adult. no parental support, no public support, no transfer payments, no unpaid tax debts to the government. voting is an adult act in that it gives you an element of influence and control over the quality of your fellow citizens lives. you can’t run around handing that out to psychologically underdeveloped persons with no capacity for independence.
I don’t think most of the failure to launch crowd votes. Registering to vote puts you in the jury duty system so then they might actually have to do something, not to mention distracting from quality X-Box time.
>>voting should be contingent on one thing: emancipation. the age at which you function as an independent adult. no parental support, no public support, no transfer payments, no unpaid tax debts to the government. voting is an adult act in that it gives you an element of influence and control over the quality of your fellow citizens lives.<<
I agree. The vote should be limited to “makers,” not “takers.”
But imagine the howls of “racism” if someone made such a proposal. You’d be able to hear it on Pluto.
Excellent idea.
In the colonial period, taxes in America were paid mostly through levies on property. Voting rights had minimum property qualifications, so that the voters — not someone else — would be subject to the taxes their representatives passed. The voters would have as much govenment as they were willing to pay for. Allowing dependent people with no skin in the game to vote is dead end folly, i.e., what we have now.