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Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45
I agree. There are several avenues that one could take to earn the right to vote. One is to serve in some capacity in the military. The idea being that if you were not willing to defend the Republic why should you be allowed to participate in its governence? A second way would be to pay taxes. If we went to a "Fair Tax" that would include almost everyone since the tax would be paid on your purchases. As long as its based on your income why should you be allowed to vote to create the need for taxes if you don't pay any?
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I suppose if the governments only job were to mismanage your donation to its monetary coffers the fair tax argument might have some validity...but isn't our government spose to be about other shit too...it should especially protect to the best of its abilities that basic shit, you know, like life liberty and the pursuit of happiness...heard about that somewhere...
So, you figurin' the military should oversee all government stuff and things?
There's a bunch of other ways to serve, I'm figurin'