Wealthier people who pay more in taxes should vote more often? Satire?
The government’s intrusion into our lives is thorough. When I was a little girl I listened for hours to stories my grandparents told of life in America before FDR.
It’s unlikely many in America would accept that much freedom and liberty in our country anymore. But still- it’s worth thinking about and looking back at in order to learn what different ways might work in the modern world.
We are far removed from the founders first principles today ..
Yes. My taxable income puts me in this group:
Taxable income is between $31k and $62k, we are 25% of taxpayers, we pay 20% of our taxable income as tax and we pull 11% of the total tax burden.
I drew up some ratios between what percentage of AGI and what percentage of the total tax burden we shoulder and then compared those ratios amongst the different levels. If this is a fair way to calculate voting rights, I should get two votes for every one vote somebody in the "less than $31k" category gets and somebody in the top 1% of "more than $365k" should get eight votes.
REPRESENTATION EQUIVALENT TO TAXATION!