[Boomer]

Anyone on gubmint payroll (federal or state level) should not be allowed to vote, imho. Including the politicians themselves. Let the tax payers without conflict of interest vote. And their votes should be proportional to the tax (of all forms) that they personally pay.

Uh...no. Gov employees pay taxes too and no ones vote should count more than anyone else.

Now if you want to talk about suspending the right to vote for people who are on the dole such as on welfare; that's a conversation worth having.

[PapaBear3625]

Now if you want to talk about suspending the right to vote for people who are on the dole such as on welfare; that's a conversation worth having.

As late as the 1930's, many states prohibited paupers from voting (you had to take the "pauper's oath" to receive public assistance). Other states required payment of a poll tax. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, ended this.