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To: Olog-hai
If they would all vote voluntarily they could indirectly get paid to vote.... works like that already.

"“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” ― Benjamin Franklin

29 posted on 03/18/2017 7:44:40 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan
The Daily Oklahoman false attribution again? Elmer T. Peterson attributed it to Alexander Fraser Tytler; it has also been spuriously attributed to de Tocqueville. Also see this thread.
35 posted on 03/18/2017 7:53:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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