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To: onona; nickcarraway
Nobody who’s paycheck comes from the government should have a vote.

Nobody on welfare or other gov subsidized income should have a vote.

It is interesting that federal government is now the single largest employer in the country.

Add to that the state and local employees of government and you have a huge voting block.

Add to that recipients of government largess and the productive class of the population are at a huge disadvantage.

When you look at it in hindsight the people of the early 19th century had the right idea when the right to vote was limited to those that owned real estate. The logic behind this was that at the time taxes were only levied on real property. Therefore if you did not pay taxes you could not vote.

Only those that paid taxes could vote for those that could impose taxes. What could be fairer than that?

11 posted on 01/19/2013 12:28:16 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac
About 1807 land in the United States went from being something of marginal value to being absolutely worthless.

It was all the gub'mnt could do to get people to buy any of it. Eventually, by the time Lincoln was President, they started giving it away!

Obviously linking voting to land ownership in the early 19th century was ridiculous and a concept readily abandoned.

I'd suggest you re-read some of the speeches where property is mentioned because THEY DON'T MEAN LAND ~ they mean SLAVES!

22 posted on 01/19/2013 10:01:43 AM PST by muawiyah
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