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To: Ford4000

NIX! All should vote! Just because you don’t like an outcome of an election is no reason to try to disenfranchise citizens. This is the core of democracy. Try to take it away and it will only lead to violence and rebellion. I am all for a poll tax as long as its low enough for 95% of the population but even that is radical for me. All should vote even illegals who are here! You work here, you have a stake in the nation. I also believe in a Universal draft or National Service for all Americans.


60 posted on 12/08/2010 5:54:46 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
The problem with universal suffrage is that it treats voting as if it were a game - everyone gets a turn. In reality, directing the government is a serious thing and we need to keep in mind what we are doing and why.

Why should those who financially contribute nothing be allowed to vote the taxes of others for themselves? Why should we think that those who can't or won't support themselves are qualified to tell the government how to manage its affairs? Obviously, they shouldn't and can't and it has nothing to do with the outcome of a particular election. I am not buying the "everyone has a stake" argument, either. Those who wish to prey on our nation or its citizens don't have any inherent right to do so.

62 posted on 12/08/2010 6:23:02 AM PST by Ford4000
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