re: POLL: 50% of millenials would give up right to vote for student loan forgiveness

Sounds like a good deal, as long as it was for life

Please do.

I'd oblige gladly oblige them of this if I were in the government.

I'd give up my right to vote for $5000. I feel pretty confident in saying that I will never vote in an election decided by fewer than 1000 votes

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So 50% of millenials are 100% stupid. That sounds about right.

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The 2016 graduating class had student loan debt over $37,000 on average. Even a 22 year old, will only have an opportunity to vote in about 12 more presidential elections, then that's like be given 3 or 4 thousand dollars every election not to vote on an outcome that a vote would have very little impact on.

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Given their liberal views will do more damage in the long term, I'd make that deal for anyone who wanted it.

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Regardless of views, for those SOBs so easily swayed, I'd make that deal for anyone who wanted it.

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I'd give up my right to vote for $5000. I feel pretty confident in saying that I will never vote in an election decided by fewer than 1000 votes

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Very few states are ever even close, and few EC results are close enough that a single close state would tip an election.

Florida in 2000 was one of the slimmest margins in history, and one of the rare times that margin decided the actually election.

The final official difference 537 votes. So one even with all those factors, a single non-voter would have had to choose Gore to tip the election (roughly 50/50 at that), and that vote would still only account for 0.186% of the difference.

That's about the maximum impact that a vote could how ever had on an election, under the most perfect circumstance and assuming a vote that lessened the final margin.

They'll just vote illegally anyway.

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This is the quintessential example of the old adage, "trading freedom for security."

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No. It's nothing like that. It's an individual choice, essentially determining whether a commodity (voting) is worth a particular price (loan amount forgiven).

At best, a single vote has a 1 in a million chance of tipping a presidential election, but considering the vast majority of people live in states with far worse odds (California is 1 in 7 billion), then at least for those elections, the value of voting is infinitesimal, especially with a growing population.

What Are the Chances Your Vote Matters?

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