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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

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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.
 
You should have added a third option: "Everyone should be allowed to vote."
 
Only a monster would seek to deny human rights over political disagreements.
 
You should have added a third option: "Everyone should be allowed to vote."


I didnt add that because I thought that was a given :) but your right sam...I dont see a way to add another poll option now :(
 
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I didnt add that because I thought that was a given :)

Keep reading the thread then, because many will not see it that way.
 
I think paraphrasing Heinlein, says it best.
"Something that is free, has no value."

I think everyone should have to earn the privilege of voting and running for public office.
Not through taxes or money'd payments but through community service.
 
I'm entirely fine saying the only people who can vote are those who pay income taxes. If you're not going to pay for government, you ought to have no say over it.
 
This is a strange poll. I didn't vote in it. I wanted to vote, "Everyone, rich and poor, should be allowed to vote."
 
I'm entirely fine saying the only people who can vote are those who pay income taxes. If you're not going to pay for government, you ought to have no say over it.
This statement contradicts itself. Income tax is only a portion of government funding.
 
This is a strange poll. I didn't vote in it. I wanted to vote, "Everyone, rich and poor, should be allowed to vote."

I am with you on this issue. And the US Constitution.
 
I think paraphrasing Heinlein, says it best.
"Something that is free, has no value."

I think everyone should have to earn the privilege of voting and running for public office.
Not through taxes or money'd payments but through community service.

when half of your next dollar goes to taxes you are spending a ton of time on community service

everyone should be allowed to vote who is of age etc but those who pay the most ought to have more votes just like a corporation and stockholder votes
 
This statement contradicts itself. Income tax is only a portion of government funding.

Lots of people are given more from the government than they pay in federal taxes
 
...everyone should be allowed to vote who is of age etc but those who pay the most ought to have more votes just like a corporation and stockholder votes



oh, you mean like the poor's vote should only count as 3/5ths of a rich man's vote?

didn't we try that a while ago?


thank God the United States is not a corporation.
 
when half of your next dollar goes to taxes you are spending a ton of time on community service

everyone should be allowed to vote who is of age etc but those who pay the most ought to have more votes just like a corporation and stockholder votes

I think that spending time and effort servicing the community is a better payment.
Plus it gets rid of the whole, "the rich bought their way in" and all that crap.
 
thank God the United States is not a corporation.

If it were, the CEO and board of directors would have long ago been fired
 
I think that spending time and effort servicing the community is a better payment.
Plus it gets rid of the whole, "the rich bought their way in" and all that crap.

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
 
If it were, the CEO and board of directors would have long ago been fired

having the votes of the wealthy count more than the votes of the poor, would have a disproportionate impact on blacks and other minorities.

thereby making such a policy..illegal.
 
Everyone who is a citizen and not a convicted felon should be able to vote.

What Gorilla suggests is nothing more than a Roman style "slave, plebeian and citizen" type society. Sorry, but I like liberty and freedom for all men. Not something based on "lesser men" principles.
 
Everyone who is a citizen and not a convicted felon should be able to vote.

What Gorilla suggests is nothing more than a Roman style "slave, plebeian and citizen" type society. Sorry, but I like liberty and freedom for all men. Not something based on "lesser men" principles.

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??
 
Everyone who is a citizen and not a convicted felon should be able to vote.

What Gorilla suggests is nothing more than a Roman style "slave, plebeian and citizen" type society. Sorry, but I like liberty and freedom for all men. Not something based on "lesser men" principles.

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.

Nearly everyone can do some type of community service.
All it takes is willpower.
 
having the votes of the wealthy count more than the votes of the poor, would have a disproportionate impact on blacks and other minorities.

thereby making such a policy..illegal.

Like Jews? Or Asians
 
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??

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