Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And it’s changing the electoral map going into 2024.
There’s been a not-single-digit amount of arguments from the right lately that only people that pay taxes should have a vote because they’re the ones putting skin into the game.
Its like no one on the right ever picked up a history book.
We did all this already. We decided as a nation that it was dumb and moved on.
If all taxpayers can vote then a lot of young people who can’t currently vote would become eligible. Also, so would most non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants. What conservatives don’t realize is that most undocumented immigrants pay taxes (and generally get back less than they pay).
I think that the idea is likely those who have a net payment into taxes, rather than having it covered with credit or deduction. That might backfire though due to ultra wealthy tax avoidance.
There’s a 30 acre plot of woods for sale behind my house. Somebody should buy it and sell 1 square foot blocks of it to people for something like $5 each.
Yeah, I know it’s not truly viable, but it would be awesome if it worked as a tactic to land ownership clauses.
Republican solution: Raise the voting age and disqualify students voting in their college districts (force the students to return home to vote).
Maybe some sort of requirement that states you must own land too?
There’s been a not-single-digit amount of arguments from the right lately that only people that pay taxes should have a vote because they’re the ones putting skin into the game.
Its like no one on the right ever picked up a history book.
We did all this already. We decided as a nation that it was dumb and moved on.
If all taxpayers can vote then a lot of young people who can’t currently vote would become eligible. Also, so would most non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants. What conservatives don’t realize is that most undocumented immigrants pay taxes (and generally get back less than they pay).
I think that the idea is likely those who have a net payment into taxes, rather than having it covered with credit or deduction. That might backfire though due to ultra wealthy tax avoidance.
You can get all of your rights back of course, if you agree to submit a special voting form that only contains the republican candidates.
I’ve played enough Victoria 3 to know that returning to landed voting after universal suffrage is not a good idea
There’s a 30 acre plot of woods for sale behind my house. Somebody should buy it and sell 1 square foot blocks of it to people for something like $5 each.
Yeah, I know it’s not truly viable, but it would be awesome if it worked as a tactic to land ownership clauses.
Like those 'buy land for lordship 'scams?
A lot of that land is owned by corporations. To make it fair, we should allow them to vote was well.
Corporations are people too…
https://apnews.com/article/local-elections-voting-corporate-entities-c9d0e49f5e475b45cb957fbec110d3e7
They have a primary candidate by the name of Vivek Ramaswamy who wants to do just that, raise the voting age.