In other words, you want to punish hardworking people such as our family who decided to rent until we found the house we wanted to buy by treating us the same as welfare recipients?
And my youngest, who isn’t married (yet) and so has decided to rent until he and his girlfriend decide to marry (and then move in together), presumably to a house they will buy should also be punished for his wise decision to wait to buy?
Did I read that right?
I appreciate your goal, but the solution is unfair to tens of millions of people very deserving the of the vote.
It is no punishment I seek.
It is simply that only taxpayers should be allowed to vote for those deciding how much tax to collect and how the collected taxes are spent.
Its common sense and utterly fair - and it incentivizes property ownership.
In fact, it is exactly how it works in quasi-governmental groups such as homeowners associations - and boy does it effective at eliminating wasteful spending.