New Hampshire GOP says "liberal-voting colliegates too stupid to vote"

[bhsup]

Good grief.

Adult workers pay taxes taken out of their income. That's their money being taxed, not their parents. Why is this so difficult?

And while you are talking about workers, I was talking about college students being supported by mom and dad.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Did George W Bush support himself through Harvard Business School?

 

[Miles Teg]

Turns out he's a nullificationist. He's in no position to be lecturing voters about their understanding of politics.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

And while you are talking about workers, I was talking about college students being supported by mom and dad.

And you stereotyped all people between 18 and 25 as such.

 

[galdre]

Did George W Bush support himself through Harvard Business School?

of course he did - and he served during Vietnam too

 

[History_Buff]

And while you are talking about workers, I was talking about college students being supported by mom and dad.

But that shouldn't matter. Even if they were the same kids, not going to college, and living in their parent's basements and doing nothing, do they not deserve the right to vote?

What you seem to be arguing here is that the right to vote should be based on you having an income (since you need one to pay taxes).

 

[emzie]

Actually having to pay for things with your OWN money and giving a crap what is done with your money, as opposed to daddy's money that is putting you through college and paying for your beer keggers... yeah, real life experience matters.

EDIT@CONTRE: You're still voting in our elections?!?!

Of course I do. Why wouldn't I?

 

[bhsup]

I am not arguing that voting should be based on income. As I said, you all misunderstood, but nevermind anyway simply because as I said earlier, I just go on this tirade from time to time but don't really mean it...

 

[Japanrocks12]

Actually having to pay for things with your OWN money and giving a crap what is done with your money, as opposed to daddy's money that is putting you through college and paying for your beer keggers... yeah, real life experience matters.

EDIT@CONTRE: You're still voting in our elections?!?!

I'm sorry that you have such a narrow minded view of America's college-going youth.

 

[amadeus]

Or raise the working age.

Also, workers under 18 get all their taxes withheld sent back to them in April.

Loss of voting rights for no taxation? Can I sign up for this?

 

[JollyRoger]

Raising the voting age to 25 (with exemptions for dt because...well, he's dt) would be fine with me. Absolutely ensures that voters have real life experience (except for a small percentage of perpetual students) and have actually had to support themselves to some degree before voting.

More directly, though, they really should be voting wherever their legal home residence is, not just wherever they are going to school.

I was supporting myself as a 18 yrear-old college freshamn.. Certainly I was more entitled to vote under that criteria than Steve Forbes or one of the Walton spawn ever will be.

The GOP should stick with the hanging chad. Dems still havent figured that one out yet.

Yep, the GOP has a monopoly on the well hung Chads of the world. Someone's gotta carry their luggage.

 

[MobBoss]

and he served during Vietnam too

Uhm. Thats technically a true statement.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Loss of voting rights for no taxation? Can I sign up for this?

Absolutely.

 

[MobBoss]

How about we just go to the Starship Troopers model/ Service means Citizenship!!!

 

[RedRalph]

Absolutely.

I think ALL Libertarians should sign up for that

 

[Japanrocks12]

I think ALL Libertarians should sign up for that

Man, this is a terrific idea, let's get this ball rolling somehow.

 

[JollyRoger]

How about we just go to the Starship Troopers model/ Service means Citizenship!!!

I think we should perhaps go the other way. If you work for the government, you get a paycheck, but not a vote.

 

[bhsup]

Also, workers under 18 get all their taxes withheld sent back to them in April.

I am guessing this is a new change in the tax code since 1986???

 

[Arwon]

Seriously? That's very disturbing. What happens if someone else tries to vote for you? If you're lazy, can you just tell your friend to vote for you?

That's a pretty minor issue really (bear in mind there's no national ID card or anything here), particularly with compulsory voting. Your friend would have to vote for themselves, go to another polling place, and then vote again for you. There's no reason you couldn't, but really, who cares?

They just ask you "what is your name?" then find your details on the electoral roll (the list of 60-80 thousand names enrolled to vote in that electorate). Then when they find that, they ask "what's your address?" and if you've already voted in that election and then you get your ballot papers. If your details don't match, you have to do a provisional "declaration" vote which gets verified after election day.

 

[madviking]

This reminds me of a (2009) article I randomly found last year suggesting we repeal the 19th amendment since women vote so overly democratic.