On Dec 19, 3:05 am, Mark & Juanita wrote:
Fred the Red Shirt wrote:



On Dec 9, 6:38 pm, Mark & Juanita wrote:
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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.

You mean like, no government contractor personel
would vote?

Quite a bit of difference between government contractors, civil servants,
military personnel, or even for that matter politicians. Those people are
providing a service in return for wages. Entirely different thing than
receiving government largesse with nothing being expected in return (other
than votes).

But then you knew that.



Wouldn't do any good because they would still
lobby.


We both also know that individuals living on welfare are an
insignificant voting block, and are not a significant source of
campaign funding either.

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FF