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Topic	Should only people who make 30k+ be allowed to vote?
Notti 04/04/17 9:27:11 PM #32:	resist_is_back posted... Notti posted... If you're going to cut out people who don't pay taxes, why not just make everyone's vote equal to their taxes and go all the way? You pay 5,000 in taxes? Your vote is worth half as much as someone who pays 10,000. Someone who pays 100,000 would then have 10 times the voting power of someone who pays 10,000. Kind of a way to achieve a completely regressive flat tax, by giving that person the voting power of multiple people. Of course, the poor are not just dollar bills. So this (and TC's idea) doesn't work. You can't measure a person's worth by their tax burden. I just want people who vote to have some reasonable (and flat) contribution to society. Right. I'm just taking your bad idea to its more accurate extreme. People who pay little taxes, get almost no voting power. People who pay a lot of taxes, get a lot of voting power. I'm just using your rationale. --- News: http://DemocraticUnderground.com/?com=latest_threads Latest Trump garbage: http://reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/new http://reddit.com/r/Impeach_Trump/new <cite>Notti posted [p:876554518] in Should onl... [t:75190917]...</cite> <quote><cite>resist_is_back posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Notti posted...</cite> <quote>If you're going to cut out people who don't pay taxes, why not just make everyone's vote equal to their taxes and go all the way? You pay 5,000 in taxes? Your vote is worth half as much as someone who pays 10,000. Someone who pays 100,000 would then have 10 times the voting power of someone who pays 10,000. Kind of a way to achieve a completely regressive flat tax, by giving that person the voting power of multiple people. Of course, the poor are not just dollar bills. So this (and TC's idea) doesn't work. You can't measure a person's worth by their tax burden.</quote> I just want people who vote to have some reasonable (and flat) contribution to society.</quote> Right. I'm just taking your bad idea to its more accurate extreme. People who pay little taxes, get almost no voting power. People who pay a lot of taxes, get a lot of voting power. I'm just using your rationale. --- News: http://DemocraticUnderground.com/?com=latest_threads Latest Trump garbage: http://reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/new http://reddit.com/r/Impeach_Trump/new</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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