This is why only veterans could vote in Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It's just like people on welfare voting: takers deciding how to spend givers money (or lives).
seems fair. If I didn't have a bad knee injury and deafness in my right ear...I would have enlisted in the army like my grandfather. Of course, hindsight being what it is...glad I didn't.
This is why only veterans could vote in Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It's just like people on welfare voting: takers deciding how to spend givers money (or lives).
Well there was this little thing called land ownership & a poll tax.
seems fair. If I didn't have a bad knee injury and deafness in my right ear...I would have enlisted in the army like my grandfather. Of course, hindsight being what it is...glad I didn't.