More and more I see facebook and twitter posts about the negativity of the presidential and gubernatorial campaigns. Well, I can honestly say I don’t see much of that as I choose not to randomly take in “news” information. No less… it leads me to the following assumption.
There are a lot of folks who just turn off their brains in response to the vitriol and still vote. There are a lot of people who vote the way the ads lead them. There are a lot of people who are given favors such as meals and gas cards to vote. Those are all the people who should not be voting. Regardless of their party leanings…
Again, I offer, that only landowners should be eligible to vote and they should be eligible to vote in every voting district in which they own property. Not just their “primary home” district.
One cannot tell me that with technology such as it is, that this is not possible to make sure each landowner votes once per district, once per state, and once per national election. If we can instantly know the odds of a lottery ticket at any point in time and the where and where the winning ticket was purchased, instantly…we can figure this out.
Makes sense to me. Why should non-landowning (aka, non property tax paying) citizens be able to vote on issues concerning local taxation, and the election of those who will decide on said taxation? This practice (among others designed to make that it a Liberal Utopia) is one of the factors that drove Detroit, MI right into the ground: a tenant heavy city voting to increase taxes of landowners and those who worked in the city, meant that no one wanted to invest or create jobs in the city. Thus, the massive decline. You get what you get…
It does make sense. I still have a lot to learn here, so bear with me. It is confusing, and I’m convinced deliberately so, this taxation thing. There is property tax on land as well as vehicles. There are far more vehicle owners than land owners. I completely agree that those who don’t own land should not be able to vote on things pertaining to land or the taxation thereof. They should be able to vote on the things that they would have to pay on.
While this would create more paperwork/computer programming work, you are right that there should be no problem in creating the programs for the various levels of voting.
The concern I would have with only landowners voting is the potential for control of the land to be further consolidated. It is nothing new for eminent domain to take land from individuals or for a property to be condemned, forcing the owner off of it so it can then be sold for commercial purposes. For instance, when a developing company wants to put in a new shopping strip, such as has been going on in Greensboro in the Friendly Center area. There are 6 homes in question. The homeowners seem happy enough to sell, but for voting purposes, this takes 6 votes to 1 – and by corporate interests. Too often corporate interests conflict with the civilian best interest. The large corporations (ah-hem, the people who run them) have little to no care whatsoever for the damage they cause to the people living on the land whether they own or rent. Then we have the whole mineral rights belonging to someone other than the land owner.
So, while I agree to a degree, there’s much more to think about here. Renters should not be voting on what happens with land/home taxation. People whose lifestyle is one of welfare should not vote on any monetary issue save for sales tax. Ah hell, let’s just do away with taxes all together. Public office should be held by non-paid volunteers. That alone would take care of many of these issues.
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