Does mockery negate that we are seeing this idea actually proposed?
outside of discussion and similar forums to this one; where do you see this being proposed (mind you, it would be nice to find that there is a sizeable number of Americans who agree that we need to tweak the franchise to realign its' incentive structure)? sponsors in Congress? heck, even the quixotic FairTax get's put back up every year.
Does mockery negate that this is a blatant scheme to disenfranchise tens of millions?
rather it is a scheme to see to it that if they do not want to share the cost then they don't get to share the power. remember, i'm calling for this to be
voluntary. no free riders, but no one is forced by their position to be a free rider.
Does mockery negate the desire to classify some citizens as less worth of the right to vote than others?
no because that claim or desire simply isn't present. no one here is making moral judgements about entire classes of citizens (i somewhat doubt, for example, that anyone on the Right would declare that the low-paid PFC in Afghanistan is somehow an inferior citizen due to the size of his paycheck). we are simply pointing out that the extension of power without extending responsibility creates a destructive incentive structure, and that it would be a good idea to fix it.
Does mockery negate the desire to categorize some citizens as having to earn the rights that have been simply a matter of course for most of our history?
actually this declares that
all citizens should be willing to shoulder their portion of the burden of governance if they are to direct it. frankly, i often wonder if we wouldn't do better with a 'civilian / citizen' dichotomy similar to what Heinlein described in Starship Troopers; where the franchise is the prize of those who have proven that they are willing to place the good of the community ahead of that of themselves. that doesn't mean i think it's a political plausibility, nor does it mean that I would propose it in the current US climate.
but i will tell you what mockery
does do: it draws out your hysterics in this thread that you depend upon in order to mask your inability to match the logic of the proposal under discussion.
or, at least, that's what my Jewish/CIA/Mason masters
told me to say.