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To: eyeamok

“We need to go back to only Property Owners having the Right To Vote”

There are a lot of hard-working contractors that have to rent.

I worked a large part of my career doing contracts all over the U.S. and even abroad.

Not right to suggest that these taxpayers have no right to vote.


13 posted on 05/05/2017 9:35:17 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

I would say a business qualifies as “property” unless one wants to get into hair-splitting between assets and real estate.


22 posted on 05/05/2017 9:39:45 AM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: TexasGator

I’d be willing to compromise on the point of owning property. You only get to vote if you actually pay federal income tax.


26 posted on 05/05/2017 9:42:58 AM PDT by Obadiah ("Juuuust a bit outside...")
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To: TexasGator; eyeamok

>>“We need to go back to only Property Owners having the Right To Vote”

Back then Property Owners were the only ones that paid taxes. So the modern equivalent is only net taxpayers should be allowed to vote (plus probably active duty military)


29 posted on 05/05/2017 9:45:22 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: TexasGator

I would agree to extend it to people that actually Pay Federal Taxes, NET!

If you owned a Business with 10 people on the Board as Owners and 100 employees, would you let the Employees have a VOTE equal to each Owner on their Compensation package???

That’s what I thought!


67 posted on 05/05/2017 1:57:32 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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