Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!renner From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner ) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: voting - (nf) Message-ID: <5655@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 22:40:29 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5655 Posted: Wed Feb 15 22:40:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:44:33 EST Lines: 27 #R:hogpd:-26900:uiucdcs:29200095:000:1175 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