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If paying taxes, and not citizenship, were the basis for voting, I'd finally get to vote.

But, really, that's a horrible idea. (basing voting on paying taxes, not me voting ) Let's disenfranchise the poor even further. As if it's not bad enough that they reduce the number of polling places, forcing people who really cannot afford to miss work to wait in long lines. There are already too many tricks used to disqualify poor voters, they don't need to make it official.

The French used to have a system in which only people who couldn't vote paid taxes.

Seaward wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:
Income disparity got us to warren buffet. Warren buffet got us to the perceived double taxation on the rich. Double taxation on the rich got us to the difference between corporate taxes and personal taxes and that got us to corporate personhood.

The problem is, the piece isn't really about income disparity. It's about how people who don't pay income taxes shouldn't be allowed to vote.

The first jump was the bigger one. That's on the first page, though, so you can go see it for yourself.