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OK now we have two diqualifiers if you dont own a home or if your recieving goverment assistance you cant vote allright ,whats next my husband and I pay A WHOLE LOT OF TAXES but we dont own our own home, and whats more we dont qualify for any programs that are aimed at helping people buy their own home, now you are telling us we havent the right to vote nice real nice.

This isn't all that difficult.

There are already several "tiers" of voting. You vote for federal representatives, state representatives, county representatives and local municipality representatives. It would be easy enough to determine if you were or were not on public assistance from any one of those localities, and then only prohibit you from voting on issues/representatives that are in whichever locality from which you are receiving assistance.

The only entities that utilize property taxes are counties and municipalities. Not owning property would mean you couldn't vote in those municipalities, but could vote in state and federal elections (if you weren't on public assistance).

Granted, it gets complicated if the local municipality or county collects income taxes and/or sales taxes. However, it might be a good thing for them to have a little more accountability as to what services are funded by what revenue base anyhow.

Even so, should you really be participating in longterm decisions (by voting) in those local areas if you aren't even committed enough to that area to actually own property? If the actions of the local government ruin the area, you can move without any penalty. The property owners are stuck with potentially distressed values - which is likely their major investment.

When I started writing this, I began to think this might be too complicated. But then I thought about my local income tax forms and realized that the local government doesn't seem to have a problem with complicated regulations when it involves taking my money, so keeping funding sources separate should be easy enough for them.