Should All Americans be Allowed to Vote? by Caspar Weinberger Jr.
The Bear on Jul 30 2008 at 3:24 am | Filed under: Election 08’
The recent partisan censorship by the New York Times regarding Senator John McCain’s op–ed article speaks for itself regardless of the spin the Times and its champions attempt to put on it. That their censorship is unfair, especially after publishing Senator Obama’s article, and that their love for all things left and their hate of most things right is equally apparent.
But there is in this election cycle a much larger issue which is brought to mind when media manipulation is so clearly displayed. Namely, should just any citizen have the sacred right to vote? Those of us who can read and understand issues and arguments, can and often do disagree. Those of us who are able to read the New York Times and decipher what is being said, really, for the most part, have already decided what we need to know to make a decision between the two apparent major party Presidential nominees.
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In the drive to get more people registered, both parties, but most especially the Democrats, do everything they can to get anybody registered who appears to “support” their cause. It doesn’t matter in the slightest whether these new registrants can speak our language or indeed have the slightest idea of any of the basic, let alone the subtle, issues of the campaign.
I saw a recent set of “man on the street” interviews in which the question of “who will you vote for” arose. Some people didn’t know who was running, some others wanted the candidate who looked “cute,” and one clueless fellow wouldn’t vote for McCain because he had heard that he was George Bush’s cousin. Probably his fogged mind had retained only a bit of the fact that Senator O’bama is apparently distantly related to Dick Cheney.
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SideBear: The idea who should vote and not vote has always been a sticking point with me.
The Founding Fathers foresaw a problem in this area and in the original Constitution they provided that only landowners should be given the privilege of voting. The reasoning behind this provision was that only those who had a vested interest in the welfare of the country should vote.
Now in our modern society this would not work out well but I do buy into the idea of that only those who had a vested interest in the welfare of the country should vote.
My modern day version of who should vote would be based on citizens who pay taxes. Now this could be refined in many ways like in “Paid Taxes in the last three years.” Additionally, anyone who is on any type of government welfare program should not be allowed to vote until they are off subject programs and paying taxes.
My thinking here is you don’t pay taxes you have no vested interest in this country and if you’re on welfare all you want besides a free lunch is a free dinner and a free and a free…
Now with a concept like this about 40% of those eligible to vote would be eliminated.
But to go any farther in this area is an exercise in futility because it would 2/3 of the States to ratify an amendment to the Constitution and neither political party would support this. After all, all the politicians bank on the moron factor to get elected.
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My solution, Bear, was to make taxes voluntary, and you get one vote for every dollar you pay in taxes. Also, if you did this, you would actually get to apply your tax dollars where you wanted them in the first place, eliminating not only most, if not all, of the corruption, but the need for most of the votes, since they are spending measures.