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Should the Poor not be allowed to vote

Should the Poor not be allowed to vote

  • The poor should be banned from voting

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • The richest 10% should be banned from voting

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • The top 1% should be banned from voting

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Only the middle class should be allowed to vote

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    3
should ten people who put nothing in the pot determine how the pot gets divided against the interests for the 2 who filled it?

all Americans have a say in how this country is run.

if you don't like it, go yell at Jefferson & Hamilton.
 
blacks and Hispanics.

and if a policy or law has a disproportionate negative effect on such groups, the law is illegal.

this is a theoretical argument. your are cluttering it up with such a stupid comment. and you are not correct. banning felons from voting creates a huge disparate impact on blacks. Read Michelle Alexander's "THE NEW JIM CROW". She is a far far left moonbat but her theory makes a lot of sense
 
How is that Conservatives, who love FREEDOM & EQUAL PROTECTION FOR ALL, are now discussing how the poor should have a lesser vote than the rich??

Because they can read and understand demographic census projections of the changing of America over the next four decades. They know that by 2050, white Americans could well be a minority and they shake in dread and fear that the current White People Party - otherwise known as the GOP - will never be able to win an national election ever again in a fair vote. So they are laying the foundation for garbage like this.

In researching corruption, the rule is FOLLOW THE MONEY. To find out what stinks in this case, just follow who is setting the stage for such a repeal and restriction of voting rights. The dots are very very easy to connect.
 
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having the vote of the poor count as only 3/5ths of the vote of the rich, is TRUE class-warfare.

enact such a policy and I would happily join the revolution to overthrow the govt.
 
should ten people who put nothing in the pot determine how the pot gets divided against the interests for the 2 who filled it?


depends on what you mean by nothing. Lets say one of the 10 is a disabled vet who can no longer works and receives disabilty, should he be allowed to vote?
 
Because they can read and understand demographic census projections of the changing of America over the next four decades. They know that by 2050, white Americans could well be a minority and they shake in dread and fear that the current White People Party - otherwise known as the GOP - will never be able to win an national election ever again in a fair vote. So they are laying the foundation for garbage like this.

In researching corruption, the rule is FOLLOW THE MONEY. To find out what stinks in this case, just follow who is setting the stage for such a repeal and restriction of voting rights. The dots are very very easy to connect.

so you think Hispanics and Blacks will always support the rich white dems who urge parasitic taxes etc?

that Hispanics will want to remain owned by their dem massas and use "racism" to excuse social pathologies?
 
I think those who don't pay federal income taxes ought to be tasked with community service requirements. its that "shared sacrifice" the clown in chief brays about constantly

I want to avoid the whole poor don't pay taxes stuff.
I think it's more equitable to require community service for everyone who wants to, vote or be elected to public office.
 
no, according to TD.

Your posts look stupid when you make silly assumptions. in posts made long before you started your tenure here I noted those who were disabled due to service to the government have paid their dues in full
 
please keep racism out of this thread.

Please take your childish and feigned indignation and moronic political correctness and stuff them in the garbage can where they belong.
 
Not at all.
I didn't say only those who serve the community should have protected rights, I said only those who do community service should be able to vote and serve in public office.

This is exactly what it is. It is a "slave, plebeian and citizen" type of governing like in Star Ship Troopers. Only real difference is it would not be necessary for citizenship, but without the right to vote or serve in office are you really a citizen anymore?

Nearly everyone can do some type of community service.
All it takes is willpower.

Not everyone wants to do it. Community service (for other than a crime) is nothing but indentured servitude or slavery with a nice name.
 
Your posts look stupid when you make silly assumptions. in posts made long before you started your tenure here I noted those who were disabled due to service to the government have paid their dues in full

what about people who are disabled due to no fault of their own? should they still lose the right to vote?

what about folks who have been unemployed for only 6 months, should they also lose the right to vote?

what are the ground-rules for your bigotry & hatred against the poor?
 
what about people who are disabled due to no fault of their own? should they still lose the right to vote?

what about folks who have been unemployed for only 6 months, should they also lose the right to vote?

what are the ground-rules for your bigotry & hatred against the poor?

what happens to disabled people with no government safety net?
 
Please take your childish and feigned indignation and moronic political correctness and stuff them in the garbage can where they belong.

its "politically correct" to want ALL Americans, regardless of income or their tax returns, to have the right to vote?

wow.
 
so you think Hispanics and Blacks will always support the rich white dems who urge parasitic taxes etc?

that Hispanics will want to remain owned by their dem massas and use "racism" to excuse social pathologies?

I think you do. I think ALEC does. I think CATO does. I think the right wing does. And the proof is in folks in the previous list supporting garbage like this.
 
This is exactly what it is. It is a "slave, plebeian and citizen" type of governing like in Star Ship Troopers. Only real difference is it would not be necessary for citizenship, but without the right to vote or serve in office are you really a citizen anymore?

Yes you are still a citizen.
See; the majority of the U.S. who don't vote or serve in public office.

They still retain all their constitutional protections.

Not everyone wants to do it. Community service (for other than a crime) is nothing but indentured servitude or slavery with a nice name.

If voting were so important to so many, than doing community service wouldn't be that great a sacrifice.
I think it's telling that people aren't willing to push a broom or pick up some trash off the highway, in order to retain something so important to them.

Taxation is slavery, lets end all taxation.
 
its "politically correct" to want ALL Americans, regardless of income or their tax returns, to have the right to vote?

wow.

its just plain stupid. We don't let children vote. those in prison, those committed to mental institutions and most of all (though it breaks the heart of the dems) those who are dead or not citizens vote
 
Your posts look stupid when you make silly assumptions. in posts made long before you started your tenure here I noted those who were disabled due to service to the government have paid their dues in full

What DUES are you talking about? There is not one word in the US Constitution about any DUES. Not a single one.
 
Or should the top 10% not be allowed to vote, since their money influences all politics. I laugh at certain forum posters who say that the poor shouldnt be allowed to vote because they only vote for who is going to give them something...that is one of the most disgustingly disengenuous statements ever uttered on this foru...because the RICH vote for who is going to give them something and they PAY them millions to do it for them in lobbiests cash and gifts to superpacs...its hypocrisy to the ooomph degree.

I think every American citizen should be allowed to vote. That said I think any tax increases should be voted on only by those who would be paying the tax increases. For example they want an extra tax on cigarettes then only smokers should be allowed to vote on whether or not to vote for those tax increases. Because its too damn easy to want tax increases when you are not the person paying for them and its too damn easy to spend other people's money.
 
I think you do. I think ALEC does. I think CATO does. I think the right wing does. And the proof is in folks in the previous list supporting garbage like this.

in many areas that were once black dominated, hispanics have become the largest ethnic group. and due to the political spoils system, the dems still give the spoils to blacks which is causing resentment in the hispanic community. And the hispanic community is far more diverse than the black community-some such as the Cubans, tend to be very hard working and very ambitious and tend not to buy into the Poor poor victimized me crap that the dems feed minorities in the hope of making them pawns of the dem party
 
I think every American citizen should be allowed to vote. That said I think any tax increases should be voted on only by those who would be paying the tax increases. For example they want an extra tax on cigarettes then only smokers should be allowed to vote on whether or not to vote for those tax increases. Because its too damn easy to want tax increases when you are not the person paying for them and its too damn easy to spend other people's money.

This has to be one of the smartest and best reasoned posts in the last week
 
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