re: A list of the 54 Texas Democrats who shot down citizen-only voting rights

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Legal local residents pay property tax.

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Only if they own property (and we know most do not)

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Do we? Why do you think that legal residents pay no property tax? (setting aside the fact that renters pay property tax as a pass-thru with their rent.

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I own property and pay tens of thousands in property tax in three different jurisdictions where I'm not allowed to vote

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I do too. We should.

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So do tourists and anyone else traveling through. I should get voting rights in every place I've paid sales tax over the last year?

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Good Lord, you are acting as if I argued that payment of property tax or sales tax would be some sort of qualifier for voting in local elections. I did not. I also mentioned the use of local roads and having children in local schools. Why are you not arguing that I insisted anyone with a car or children should get to vote? Because (obviously) I did not say that, either.

I simply used those as several indicators that legally-resident, non-citizens are contributing members of the local community and that it is not unreasonable (or "Leftist") to consider the possibility of allowing them to have a say in the RUNNING of that local community.