Why do non-producers get an equal amount of say as the producers who support them?
We ought to go back to land owning being a requisite to vote, poll taxes, literacy tests, the whole ball of wax.
I'm sick of politicians pandering to the scum of the earth and buying their votes. SICK!
The problem is that when you start restricting voting it becomes a question of what those restrictions are. For example, you start restricting voting to 'productive' people. Do you define those people as people who pay income taxes? a certain amount of income taxes? people making more than 40k/yr, what about 150k/yr or maybe you need to earn $1mil year.
It is the same problem with blocking the 'felon' vote. What if in a year, B.H.O. is President and we have a democratic congress and they decide to ban all guns. They enforce it by automatically arresting anyone who has ever filled out a 4473 and can't produce the weapon for immediate destruction. (Nevermind the constitutionality of this, perhaps BHO has also stacked the court by the time the first appeals get there). In one fell swoop, one party can usurp the 'reset' button part of the consitution.
The frustration you are feeling is that our society was originally set-up by the founders so that there couldn't be many 'non-productives'. Such non-productives would starve/freeze to death once the good will of the town's people ran out. It was a great incentive that made this country great. Go out, earn what you can get, and you get to keep it. The number of non-productives go up every year for two reasons: Higher taxes make it less desirable to work and higher welfare payouts make it more desirable to stay home.
The real problem with the income tax system is that the amendment that allows it to exist was formatted as a blank cheque. Now we have the problem that non-productives can decide to steal from the productives through it. Moreover, such a decision was made by people who are not even alive now. People can run on the platform of increasing the amount of the cheque (as BHO does) and giving it back to everyone.
I wonder what would happen if someone proposed limiting the scope of income taxes. Oh that is right, it would never get through the first stages of the amendment process (congress) because, like this bail out bill, they would deem it, "Something America needs even if they don't want."
