Tim Daneliuk wrote:
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.

Uh, the President doesn't fund anything.

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