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To: nathanbedford
Don't overcomplexify. Try this one for size: each person gets one vote for every dollar they pay to the United States Treasury in income taxes. You bring your 1040 to the polling place, and the line "total tax" determines the size of your voting bloc.

"But that disenfranchises people who have negative tax!" This is bad why?

12 posted on 10/28/2012 3:56:13 AM PDT by asinclair (Bulls*it is an ever-renewable resource.)
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To: asinclair

Don’t overcomplexify. Try this one for size: each person gets one vote for every dollar they pay to the United States Treasury in income taxes. You bring your 1040 to the polling place, and the line “total tax” determines the size of your voting bloc.

Use to hear something along the lines you shouldn’t be able to vote unless you’re a property owner years ago. Now many years I understand why. Not that I totally agree with that but your values and beliefs shift when you have to pay property taxes, have a family, are earning a decent income and begin to learn just how many ways we are taxed and fee’d to death by the local and federal governments. The frustration of having to hand over so much of your income and the realization that it’s for the government to blow your money on social programs, pork, and funding for utopian fantasy ideals will turn any liberal into a conservative.


23 posted on 10/28/2012 5:00:43 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: asinclair

Don’t overcomplexify. Try this one for size: each person gets one vote for every dollar they pay to the United States Treasury in income taxes. You bring your 1040 to the polling place, and the line “total tax” determines the size of your voting bloc.

Use to hear something along the lines you shouldn’t be able to vote unless you’re a property owner years ago. Now many years I understand why. Not that I totally agree with that but your values and beliefs shift when you have to pay property taxes, have a family, are earning a decent income and begin to learn just how many ways we are taxed and fee’d to death by the local and federal governments. The frustration of having to hand over so much of your income and the realization that it’s for the government to blow your money on social programs, pork, and funding for utopian fantasy ideals will turn any liberal into a conservative.


24 posted on 10/28/2012 5:03:25 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: asinclair

Take that one step further, and you have my plan. Not only do you bring your 1040, you file your taxes and cut the check right then and there (no weekly withholding). You get as many votes as dollars you pay. If you want more votes, feel free to cut a bigger check. You can’t pay/vote less, though.

Imagine everyone knowing exactly how much they pay in taxes, then having to vote. Might start voting for folks that advocate lower taxes.


30 posted on 10/28/2012 9:35:11 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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