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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepubs who want to take away your right to vote: homeowner department.
Teabagger Judson Phillips for one: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/30/132532/tea-party-voting-property/
"If youre not a property owner, you know, Im sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners
And Ted Yoho for another: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5360208/?ir=Business
"Ive had some radical ideas about voting and its probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote," Yoho said in unearthed footage uploaded on Tuesday by Right Wing Watch.
That is over one-third of all Americans they'd dis-en-fucking-franchise.
Christ in a teapot.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)especially in Manhattan. Only millionaires can vote? Oh, they would like that one for sure.
SQUEE
(1,315 posts)to the people in my county for a buck. then give the proceeds to the most offensive (to a Repub) cause I can find...
riqster
(13,986 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)I personally think that people with hourly wage jobs have a big stake in the community because they want the local economy to do well so their jobs continue. Or maybe people with children because they want to plan ahead for the benefit of those children.
As for Phillips and Yoho, there is a reason the voting rules were changed to allow more than just property owners to vote. I'm surprised they haven't advocated for going back to the system of many of the early colonies - each colonist once admitted as a freeman owned a stake of the colony and was a shareholder. Only freemen were allowed to vote and they had to be approved by the other freemen before they were awarded that level of participation. Essentially, the colonies were corporations - these guys would love that system.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Revolting.