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To: Garth Tater

The Founders saw the wisdom of giving only those who had a stake in the game, landowners, the right to vote.


32 posted on 08/27/2017 6:52:57 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317
Was that owner occupied housing owners or all land owners?

Voting in taxes that applied to "thee" but not to "me" was not what the Founders were all about. What was the line about no taxation without representation, or something like that?
33 posted on 08/27/2017 6:58:29 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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