Of course but it is exacerbated by universal suffrage.Originally Posted by pro-bipartisan
Uninformed voters is the primary reason why voting should not be universal.
Not everyone knows what is in the best interest of their government.
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Yes, but it could never get passed.
I have no opinion.
Of course but it is exacerbated by universal suffrage.
Uninformed voters is the primary reason why voting should not be universal.
Not everyone knows what is in the best interest of their government.
I was discovering that life just simply isn't fair and bask in the unsung glory of knowing that each obstacle overcome along the way only adds to the satisfaction in the end. Nothing great, after all, was ever accomplished by anyone sulking in his or her misery.
—Adam Shepard
Who would you take it away from?
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How would you decide who can and can't vote?
People who don't pay taxes and people who recieve any form of payment or privilege from the government.
Under this plan I would not be able to vote (I don't pay federal taxes) but I realize that making a personal sacrifice is more important.
I was discovering that life just simply isn't fair and bask in the unsung glory of knowing that each obstacle overcome along the way only adds to the satisfaction in the end. Nothing great, after all, was ever accomplished by anyone sulking in his or her misery.
—Adam Shepard
Yes, I realize all of this. If you are comfortable with it, then so am I! Let's do it, away with the electoral college!
Technically, you don't pay taxes if you make below a certain amount (it gets returned). Everyone still pays income tax of course. But by your plan, poor people would be disenfranchised.
Also, even if you don't pay taxes, so many other things are handled by the federal government, it's going to affect you no matter what, and that'd be pretty unjust.
Why would you disenfranchise them?
The Makeout Hobo is real, and does indeed travel around the country in his van and make out with ladies... If you meet the Makeout Hobo, it is customary to greet him with a shot of whiskey and a high five (if you are a dude) or passionate makeouts (if you are a lady).
That's impractical and unworkable. Why should someone who is poor yet very knowledgeable and up-to-date on current events who would be a very informed voter not be able to vote while Paris Hilton can vote?
It disenfranchises more than poor people.
Do you know how many businesses receive government funds and privileges not afforded to the rest of us?
They typically cast their vote for the person who promises the most benefits and those people haven't earned those benefits. Politicians shouldn't be able to bribe people with taxpayers money to vote for them.
It is unethical everywhere else in this world, why is it not with voting?
Poor has nothing to do with it. You can refuse government subsidies and pay a nominal tax to participate.
I was discovering that life just simply isn't fair and bask in the unsung glory of knowing that each obstacle overcome along the way only adds to the satisfaction in the end. Nothing great, after all, was ever accomplished by anyone sulking in his or her misery.
—Adam Shepard
Thats the key point there. I do not want California or some other densely populated stated decided laws for my state.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"
Cicero Marcus Tullius
No.
The EC prevented Al Gore from being president.
Long Live the EC!
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