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Sep. 3rd, 2011 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disneydream06What's that old saying?
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Author Claims People Who “Burden Society” Should Not Get To Vote
by Robin M
Most conservatives are slightly more guarded with their personal beliefs on voting. They hide behind “voter fraud.” They use subtle voter suppression tactics like having less ballots or machines in certain neighborhoods. They tend to pick just the right “targets” to ask to prove they have the right to vote. They suggest paying taxes, owning a home, or other qualifiers to limit who should be able to vote.
But it seems the the niceties are over. Now they are starting to just come out and say it.
The poor don’t deserve to vote.
The latest to just give up on the veiled language and simply ask that the right be stripped from the poor? Conservative columnist and author Matthew Vadum. According to Vadum, allowing the poor to vote is like “handing out burglary tools to criminals.”
Via Talking Points Memo, Valdum stated “It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote….Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor. It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money.”
So, if you are on welfare, if you receive unemployment benefits, if you get disability or food assistance, you no longer get to vote because you would vote for people more likely to continue these programs? Wouldn’t it be just as logical then to strip the vote from owners of corporations who benefit from government deregulation? Or the ultra wealthy who vote in politicians who will provide additional tax breaks, or even better, allow they to stop paying taxes on their stock earnings and other non-wage labor?
When it comes to handing out burglary tools to criminals, it might benefit everyone to take a closer look at who isn’t paying their fair share, first.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Author Claims People Who “Burden Society” Should Not Get To Vote
by Robin M
Most conservatives are slightly more guarded with their personal beliefs on voting. They hide behind “voter fraud.” They use subtle voter suppression tactics like having less ballots or machines in certain neighborhoods. They tend to pick just the right “targets” to ask to prove they have the right to vote. They suggest paying taxes, owning a home, or other qualifiers to limit who should be able to vote.
But it seems the the niceties are over. Now they are starting to just come out and say it.
The poor don’t deserve to vote.
The latest to just give up on the veiled language and simply ask that the right be stripped from the poor? Conservative columnist and author Matthew Vadum. According to Vadum, allowing the poor to vote is like “handing out burglary tools to criminals.”
Via Talking Points Memo, Valdum stated “It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote….Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor. It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money.”
So, if you are on welfare, if you receive unemployment benefits, if you get disability or food assistance, you no longer get to vote because you would vote for people more likely to continue these programs? Wouldn’t it be just as logical then to strip the vote from owners of corporations who benefit from government deregulation? Or the ultra wealthy who vote in politicians who will provide additional tax breaks, or even better, allow they to stop paying taxes on their stock earnings and other non-wage labor?
When it comes to handing out burglary tools to criminals, it might benefit everyone to take a closer look at who isn’t paying their fair share, first.
