Justice Dankula is ROUGH JUSTICE
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There was a reason why the country was founded with a handful of restrictions on who could vote, to do the barest minimum of filtering out.
While that has its own problems, we did already have this particular problem solved.
My proposal - weighted voting.
People that are net positive tax contributors (pay in more than they take out) should get a full vote.
People that are net negative tax drains (welfare, Social Security, government workers) count as .5 of a vote.
I would go further. I think we should have a whole range of "measures of citizenship" that each award additional votes. High school/college graduate, currently employed, military service, no criminal record, etc. Would all count.
The net effect would be that the trailer trash cousin-fucker gets one vote, and an upstanding citizen may get twenty or more.
This would disincentivize the race to the bottom we have now, where a thousand useful idiots beats a hundred well informed voters ten times over.
Seems overly complicated, hard to administer and easy to game. Nice positive benefit/negative drain binary choice would be easier.
Just check returns filed in April for people voting in November.
Given time, everything is "easy to game".
Especially when idiot politicians decide to award a bunch of 'weight' to being the right color/sex.
It's how voting became a free for all in this country.
Your solution isn't as simple as you present it either. Disability isn't taxable, nor are military allowances. Are disabled workers and soldiers to receive half a vote under your system?
And I see you lumped in social security with welfare- you realize that's not a freebie; workers are required to pay into it their entire career. Are they supposed to only receive half a vote because they retired?
As to "gaming" my system: OK, if you serve a tour in the military, or go to college and get a job to get more votes, so what? It's an measure of your contributions to society, not you motivations. People that put in the effort get a greater say in government, why they put in the effort is a personal matter.
Oh yes, let’s give all the crazy feminists with 3 masters degrees more votes then an electrician.
Much like the incredibly simple and widely used voter id, it would get rejected for racism instantly. You know why, they know why, but you can't say it out loud.
Well of course. Like any children they cannot understand long term planning or delayed gratification. Every single thing must be available to them right now and without obstacle. Either out of "equality" or "freedom" without an understanding of why these things were denied or delayed to begin with.