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CORPORATIONS don't vote.
It won't happen, but only tax PAYERS should be voting. Anyone taking more than SS are on the dole and tend to vote themselves politicians that give away the treasury to stay in power.
Just pass a balanced budget amendment and leave an acception for war and a national emergency and this all will fix itself.
If there is no money to bribe for a vote the number of "producers" will go up as the dole goes down.
[b]"tax PAYERS" would be everybody, or at least all adults/B]
Out this way in SE Los Angeles you have the bulk on public assistance and then in addition they file for multi-thousand dollar tax refunds though they don't earn any money. The IRS pays it and doesn't seem to bust these felons. Not right when so many PAY taxes.
multi thousand dollar tax refunds??? Somehow I doubt that
Also, the refunds that they do get, probably a couple of hundred at best, is their money. They get it back because too much was taking out of their paychecks. That's why it's called a "refund"
Not only do they not pay income tax, but every tax dollar they ever paid is returned, and then some, with the subsidies they get from government.
What about the bankers who got a whole ****load of money from the government in the last days of the Bush years? Would they also lose the right to vote?
It doesn't. That's why they need to take more initiative and be more creative in earning a living.
For the able-bodied, there is no excuse. Read The Millionaire Next Door to see how millions of people accumulate a surprising amount of wealth while earning modest incomes. Likewise, 68.5% of America's top 400 wealthiest are self-made.
Most people are not capable of coming up with business ideas that succeed. Most small businesses fail. You're being entirely too idealistic. Take real estate for example. Very few people can actually make a living on real estate alone. There are so many agents, and it's such a difficult business that most either quit or do it part time. Expecting everyone to succeed at something like that is just plain naive.
well I think a fair solution for this is that we should have two congress.
One that deals with general laws and another congress that deals with fiscal matters.
everybody should get to vote for general congress,because if certain things get made illegal.
We all suffer a blow to our rights.
The congress that deals with fiscal matters should be decided by tax paying voters.
but,even poor people pay payroll taxes into SS and Medicare, so they should get some say also
on how that program gets handled.
ahhh forget it keep the system we have.
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