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Should public employees be allowed to vote?

Should public employees be allowed to vote?


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Of course they should vote. They're citizens like the rest of us.

If you want to start denying the vote to people who have a financial interest in government decisions there'd be no one left to vote.
 
If enough people would vote 'no' I would be fine asking a counter-offer which would bar anyone from voting who did not have a Master's degree. I think that would sufficiently go after the conservative populists.

Of course they should be allowed to vote.
 
All citizens reserve the right to vote and should always.
 
As long as they don't have to follow any of the laws or pay any taxes .... then sure.
 
Some people say that anyone receiving government money should not vote. Some people think it is a conflict of interest.

Only if you are an anti-government fool. Government provides private sector incentives and benefits all the time for the same reason that public employees also occasionally receive incentives and benefits. If we did not, we wouldn't need to massage and pamper small business owners, corporations, and their workers with such flowery language in each election cycle.
 
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Should public employees be allowed to vote?

I sometimes ask myself this, and it seems so contrary to how things ought to be that I tend to dismiss it.

The question usually occurs when I encounter some event/story which highlights the potential and/or actual conflict of interest when employees or (in the case of public employee unions) groups of employees can elect their employers.


So I decided to put the question to you all: Should public employees be allowed to vote, and what rational supports your position?

Big money, corporations and foreign money can and do buy politicians but you think public employees who actually do pay taxes should not vote?
 
Big money, corporations and foreign money can and do buy politicians but you think public employees who actually do pay taxes should not vote?
There is a big difference between giving to a politician that supports what you want passed, and that of actually buying a vote.
People need to get off this corruption kick. It doesn't happen that much.
 
There is a big difference between giving to a politician that supports what you want passed, and that of actually buying a vote.
People need to get off this corruption kick. It doesn't happen that much.

Are you ****ing kidding me?
 
Are you ****ing kidding me?
No I am not.
There most definitely is a big difference.
Most legislators agree with what they vote for. Show they don't.
Show they don't agree and only vote for something because they received a donation.
 
Who said never?

I was being hyperbolic. I'm 64 - I've been around awhile. There is more corruption than we know, and we know plenty already. I have no idea how you can claim it's rare when it's reported seemingly weekly or even more often. I used to work for the Federal government, and I've personally witnessed it. There's far, far more going on than anything that's ever reported, too. But you are correct. You did not say "never".
 
There is more corruption than we know, and we know plenty already.
As we are talking about buying votes, I would say you have a warped sense of reality if you think it occurs as often as it seems you are suggesting.
 
No I am not.
There most definitely is a big difference.
Most legislators agree with what they vote for. Show they don't.
Show they don't agree and only vote for something because they received a donation.

I can show you that billions of dollars are spent and received by people who know that money buys votes.
 
I can show you that billions of dollars are spent and received by people who know that money buys votes.
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And again.

There is a big difference between giving to a politician that supports what you want passed, and that of actually buying a vote.
People need to get off this corruption kick. It doesn't happen that much.
 
You and your cohort "likers" couldn't be further from the truth. Just because V puts out crazy ****, doesn't speak for the rest of us.

Maybe not you, but he speaks for far, far too many.
Attempts to suppress the vote is not at all uncommon in your party and you know it.
 
Are you ****ing kidding me?

To say otherwise you'd have to prove that a politican is voting against something he actually disagrees with, but he is voting in favor of it because he was bribed in a fashion.

I agree with that poster. I think it's probably happened, but I think it's rare.
 
There is a big difference between giving to a politician that supports what you want passed, and that of actually buying a vote.
People need to get off this corruption kick. It doesn't happen that much.

It's a subtle intellectual difference, but the ability to determine one from the other is rather difficult.
 
Maybe not you, but he speaks for far, far too many.
Attempts to suppress the vote is not at all uncommon in your party and you know it.

No I don't, I don't know any such thing, and neither do you. Just because you say votes are being suppressed doesn't make it so.
 
No I don't, I don't know any such thing, and neither do you. Just because you say votes are being suppressed doesn't make it so.

In some cases, there was little reason for some of the parameters to exist which did (which state was it that restricted early voting in the same bill?) except to design it as a means of disproportionately impacting certain segments of the voting population. In my state, the only two things I could reason out was that it was done because: it was the fashionable thing for Republicans to support nationally, and we wanted to make it more difficult for out-of-state oil and boom workers from uprooting the North Dakota way of life.
 
If money really bought votes wouldn't we be talking about president Romney right now?

not really given the fact that obama had tons of big bucks supporters like Soros, and most of hollywood and most of the MSM
 
I'm just stunned that anyone could be that un-American and not even seem to realize it.

As long as I've known, voting is the right of American citizens, all American citizens, not a privilege as some nuts believe.
 
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