I wish we would go to a "merit=votes" system. Everybody can have one vote as a sop to the universal suffrage crowd, but it goes up from there. Graduated high school? +1. Served in the military/Peace Corps/Americorps? +1. Net tax payer? +1. Pick whatever indicators you like for being a "good citizen" and productive member of society and assigned bonus votes to them.
In a scenario like that, someone rich like Bill Gates would get the extra vote for being a taxpayer, but he never served in the military and quit college before graduating, so he'd lose those sorts of votes. The goal would be to concentrate the maximum amount of votes in middle class taxpayers (both an absolute numbers and in votes per person), leaving predatory rich people and welfare parasites both unable to muster enough votes to be a deciding force in an election.
I wish we would go to a "merit=votes" system. Everybody can have one vote as a sop to the universal suffrage crowd, but it goes up from there. Graduated high school? +1. Served in the military/Peace Corps/Americorps? +1. Net tax payer? +1. Pick whatever indicators you like for being a "good citizen" and productive member of society and assigned bonus votes to them.
In a scenario like that, someone rich like Bill Gates would get the extra vote for being a taxpayer, but he never served in the military and quit college before graduating, so he'd lose those sorts of votes. The goal would be to concentrate the maximum amount of votes in middle class taxpayers (both an absolute numbers and in votes per person), leaving predatory rich people and welfare parasites both unable to muster enough votes to be a deciding force in an election.