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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
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Subject: Re: voting - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 22:40:29 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Feb 15 17:03:00 1984

   /***** uiucdcs:net.politics / drux3!trb / 12:41 am  Feb 14, 1984 */
>  Which brings up a philosophical question:  Do those who
>  pay no income tax and/or receive governmental assistance
>  have the right to determine how other people's money is spent?

This question suggests a voting qualification scheme I propose from
time to time.  I suggest that only those people who pay more in income
tax than they receive directly from the federal government should be
allowed to vote.  This excludes people on welfare, unemployment, and
social security.  It excludes federal employees.  (It would also exclude
me; the feds are picking up the interest on my student loans, which
exceeds my federal income tax this year.)

In general, it excludes that section of the population with a financial
interest in government schemes that take wealth from those who produce
it and give it to those who do not.  I suggest that such a scheme is the
only way, short of financial collapse, that the US can control the
out-of-control "entitlement" programs.

I expect flames; I trust nobody thinks this plan makes me a "disgrace to the
human race."

Scott Renner
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner