J. Clarke wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Mark & Juanita wrote:
NoOne N Particular wrote:

J. Clarke wrote:
Charlie Self wrote:
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Then, change the voting rules so that only people within the
middle
class income range can vote. Only income from actual work counts.
Interest, dividends, stock sales, etc. don't count. No more
freeloaders and no more richies. Just the so-called "average
joe".

Not sure why you want to exclude those who exceed a certain
income
threshold from voting. That kind of shows a certain amount of
dedication and success capability. In truth, they don't have
enough
numbers to significantly influence election results by much anyway.

What should be required is that people who are living from
government benefits should not be allowed to vote. This is the
people voting themselves the treasury that the founders were warned
against. You have a dependency class voting for those who promise
to take money from the people who are working and provide it those
who are not. Self-support should be a pre-requisite for the
franchise.

And while we're at it, I think there should be a civics test,
required every decade or so - in English - as a pre-requisite to
voting.

That sort of thing has a very, very bad reputation. When such testing
was used, in some localities it was impossible for a black man, even
if he had a PhD in English from Harvard, to pass such a test.


Right. It has been abused. That needs to be watched for. But the
idea that any sub-literate knucklehead without a hint of what animates
our laws should be able to vote is terrifying. That's how you
get a nation demanding that a "conservative" president fund all manner
of social do-gooding that is fundamentally illegal.

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