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If "all men are created equal," we should be requiring everyone to pay the same percentage income tax. Want to vote in federal and state elections? Pay your fair share = equal percentage of federal and state income tax. Not everyone pays now; nearly half of all American households pay no federal income tax whatsoever. Some even get money FROM the government.
Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-apf-1105567323.html?x=0&.v=1 - broken link)
Of course, voting for president and other federal gov offices without having to pay any federal income tax provides a mighty strong incentive for nearly half of Americans to vote themselves ever increasing amounts of freebies and entitlements by electing politicians who promise exactly that. If you ever wonder why our national debt is so high, giving freebies and entitlements to those who don't pay into the system is one of the major causes.
Yes. Equality would require that. Everyone should pay the same for the government we all have.
It's getting bad in some places with the welfare class outnumbering the working taxpayers. They can vote in every sort of handout possible, there is no limit to the money they want to take from those who actually worked for the money.
If 25 years from now, when California is 99% illegal aliens and their anchors. They will probably begin talking about seceding and joining Mexico. It will be difficult not to support your proposal then.
It would be better now if California would do that, it would eliminate all the Medicaid and food stamp money and federal grant money, they would have to turn to Mexico DF for their welfare programs.
It's worse than that. The welfare class of Mexico is moving in, voting for more and better welfare programs and making sure immigration from their country remains unlimited. They like California being a part of the USA because that lets them control immigration enforcement, and allows the citizens of a foreign nation to access the social security program, the welfare handouts, and control the outcome of our elections.
Yes, of course. Only those whose lives revolve around money should be allowed to vote because it's only money that matters in life. Those whose lives do not revolve around money should not only be barred from voting, they should be sterilized, lobotomized, and herded into death camps in the middle of the desert. Money is life--the lack of it should be death. Once per month in each municipality within the US, a low-life, poverty-ridden, subhuman slob should be spared the shower at the death camp and be dragged into the town square behind a special golden Lexus; he should then be hanged, drawn and quartered to remind us that money is our God and poverty is death.
If your main thrust in life is not money, to hell with you.
If you can't name every state in the Union within a two minute timeframe, you can't vote.
Absolutely. Voting should depend on pointless rote memorization. If you can't recite the middle name of each US president in reverse chronological order, give pi to 100 decimal places, and list the first 200 numbers in the fibonacci sequence, you have no business voting in this country.
Yes, of course. Only those whose lives revolve around money should be allowed to vote because it's only money that matters in life. Those whose lives do not revolve around money should not only be barred from voting, they should be sterilized, lobotomized, and herded into death camps in the middle of the desert. Money is life--the lack of it should be death. Once per month in each municipality within the US, a low-life, poverty-ridden, subhuman slob should be spared the shower at the death camp and be dragged into the town square behind a special golden Lexus; he should then be hanged, drawn and quartered to remind us that money is our God and poverty is death.
If your main thrust in life is not money, to hell with you.
Happy?
What if your main thrust in life is not to earn your own money but to take the money of others? For example the welfare types, it's not that they don't love money, they like free money - in the form of free housing provided by the working types, they like all the food stamps they can be given.
The whole problem is not that some will give up money and all it can buy, it's that they want all the things it does buy but they don't want to earn it themselves.
What if your main thrust in life is not to earn your own money but to take the money of others? For example the welfare types, it's not that they don't love money, they like free money - in the form of free housing provided by the working types, they like all the food stamps they can be given.
The whole problem is not that some will give up money and all it can buy, it's that they want all the things it does buy but they don't want to earn it themselves.
Your response points out just what I was hoping someone would. There are many types of 'poor.' And as your post points out just as clearly as I could have, had I not resorted to sarcasm: you used the word 'some'--some give up money, yet want the things they can no longer earn. So they become welfare queens or kings. Some. Not all. Others simply and purposely earn a lower wage and live a frugal life to match their income--there should be no punishment for such a lifestyle.
Others simply and purposely earn a lower wage and live a frugal life to match their income--there should be no punishment for such a lifestyle.
There should also be no benefit to that - the benefit of paying little to no income tax, or even getting money FROM the government. Otherwise, the government is incentivizing the total elimination of productivity and self-sufficiency - which is essentially what is happening now.
Work ---> have part of your earnings taken away, making it harder to provide for yourself and your family.
Don't work ---> the government pays you to not work, and takes care of you and your family (welfare, food stamps, medicaid, etc.).
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