Should you have to pass a test to vote?

• HitsRus

  

  ^^^If you noticed or looked, I voted 'No' on whether you needed to pass a test to having voting rights...and I posted earlier on this thread also. I made that post because the thread was evolving into a discussion about criteria for voting. IF there should be any criteria at all (dubious at best)...it should be based on contributions not education.
  
  But, to your point...I fail to see where 'have's' would pull away from 'have nots' unless you believe that that only the upper 5% should have to pay any tax. I said '"any" tax, and I gave allowance for those temporarily unemployed, physically unable to work and students and seniors who have contributed years of taxes. That leaves only the chronically unemployed.
  
  While I am speaking hypothetically, it seems hard for me to justify non contributing people having a say in how the money taken out of my pocket should be spent. In a sense, it is state sponsored thievery....like a beggar on the street getting a policeman to stop me and making me give him every third dollar out of my wallet.
• iclfan2

  

  Hitsrus - I don't know if you were serious either, but unfortunately for fly4fun, I think that is a great idea. If you aren't contributing to society (i.e. not paying taxes other than sales tax) than you shouldn't be able to vote. Basically the same people who would fail the test would be in the same group.
• HitsRus

  

  Eh, not necessarily. I know a lot of educated people who worked the system till the very end of the unemployment benefits. I also know people without an HS education that work their a** off and support their families. Who 'deserves' the privledge to vote? (If we were to make it a privledge rather than a 'right'.)
• Fly4Fun

  

  iclfan2;985886 wrote:Hitsrus - I don't know if you were serious either, but unfortunately for fly4fun, I think that is a great idea. If you aren't contributing to society (i.e. not paying taxes other than sales tax) than you shouldn't be able to vote. Basically the same people who would fail the test would be in the same group.

  Do you realize how quickly things could devolve socioeconomically?
• HitsRus

  

  Do you realize how quickly things could devolve socioeconomically?

  How? Obviously cc runner's method would be what we have today, but only in reverse....so we shouldn't give more than one vote per person. But why would it be so bad to require someone to minimally earn the right to have a say in how the country is being run? If you are talking about social devolution, and the destruction of the family...can it be any more on display than since the birth of the "Great Society
• BRF

  

  Wow.....13 people have voted on this thread to actually make someone take a test to vote.
• HitsRus

  

  Just to set the record straight, BRF it wasn't me....and my posts discussing establishing any criteria are purely hypothetical.
  
  Quite frankly, however, that 40% of those responding to a poll on voting rights, would respond in such a way is somewhat frightening as it is should be the most sacred of all American rights.
• BRF

  

  HitsRus;986243 wrote:Just to set the record straight, BRF it wasn't me....and my posts discussing establishing any criteria are purely hypothetical..

  I know, Big Dawg! No need for an explanation to me!
• BRF

  

  Look! I killed the thread!