I wonder what part of Virginia you’re in. The median price of a home in Northern Virginia has fallen, but it’s still $420,000. A lot of people around here probably can’t afford a $3,500 mortgage, or whatever it works out to (and with a new property tax increase in Fairfax County impending), but that hardly makes them “poor people” who don’t pay “much if anything in taxes.” Your post truly is ridiculous.
It is true that in the olden days only property owners could vote — perhaps you’d like to return to that system.
It was a good concept. It is wrong for people who aren't paying the bills to be able to vote to steal money from those who are paying. The bottom 50% of taxpayers only pay 4% of the total income tax revenue, yet they have the ability to vote for politicians who are happy to write legislation to lay exorbitant taxes on the top 5% and hand that money to the bottom 50% in the form of government largess. It's wealth redistribution where the low income majority can vote to steal from the high income minority using the full force of the government. That is just plain immoral.