Voting Rights: How America’s experiment will be its downfall

Universal suffrage has been a disaster.

Ill favor cuts in welfare for people if at the same time we cut no less in corporate welfare.

No stadiums are built anymore (for pro teams) without the city kicking in.

Farm Aid.

McDonalds got millions to market chicken nuggets in Japan.

Etc.

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The Founding Fathers tried to avoid this scenario via voting laws, but “muh feels” got in the way of logic.

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So basically, you want to go back to only having white male property owners have sole voting rights.

Another reason to not use a tax-qualified savings plan.

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So basically, you want to go back to only having white male property owners have sole voting rights.

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not me

I have a simple criteria that has nothing to do with sex, race, religion or ethnicity.

If you are on government assistance, your voting privilege is suspended.

When you get off, you get to vote again.

Most veterans are not net posititve tax payers so kiss the military vote goodbye if you get that passed.

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So basically, you want to go back to only having white male property owners have sole voting rights.

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If that is the only option between that and what we have now = then YES

I'd settle for:

1 - make ALL forms of 'welfare' while retaining voting rights to be reviewed for responsible behavior == meaning no trivial expenditures, sincere efforts to become financially independent = responsible parentage to include efforts to make sure offspring do not become public wards = etc.
- if a person decides to just be a parasite - then forfeit the right to vote (ensure this by VERY RIGID and ROBUST Voter ID, registration requirements) = we will keep you alive because it ia a public sanity issue for you to die in the streets.

2 - ensure that all voters have some degree of understanding the impact of their vote = if you don't know anything about the office you are voting upon, then no vote. YES - some sort of POLL TEST administered at time of registration.
= remove POPULARITY as the only rationale for a choice.

3 - raise voting age to 30 yrs. === we have raised adolescence into the late 20s - no adolescent should be allowed to vote.

4 - no external assistance in getting to the registration office or voting booth = limit assistance normal friends and family only + no other 'bribe' for a vote.

/\ nothing in there is racist, misogynist, religious, or otherwise discriminatory

Not when you factor in the VA benefits you get. Of course I am talking in general, not about you personally my good man.

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Not when you factor in the VA benefits you get.

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What VA benefits offset the taxes "most" veterans pay each year? Be specific.