This makes sense....

[Heartstrings]

[niyad]

1. Ohhhhhh, I do like this!

[liberalla]

2. That's good! Only to make a point though--I want them voting!

[Heartstrings]

6. Absolutely! nt

[hot2na]

3. Tell that to the residents of Washington DC

They have no representation in congress. Neither the house or the senate.

[cos dem]

11. It's even on their license plate, isn't it?

[calimary]

13. We'd get two new Senators and another likely "friendly" in Congress.

[LakeArenal]

4. Good one.

[Karadeniz]

5. Oh, yes!!! Brilliant!!!

[ananda]

7. What about voters purged through gerrymandering?

My vote for Congress simply gets drowned out by stupid
rightwingers 150 miles from here.

[multigraincracker]

8. That's what our Founding Fathers were

saying as they tossed that tea in the harbor.

The best part is that right wingers would do anything to not pay taxes.


I’ve been saying this for years. I’m glad it’s catching on.

[alwaysinasnit]

9. We also have a lot of legal permanent residents who pay taxes and are not allowed to vote.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Yes, we have to think outside the box to find solutions

Sometimes you can't outlaw things, but you can discourage them with taxes. Depriving the government of tax revenue would get attention fast.

[KS Toronado]

19. How about a $10,000 tax on every AR15 sold?

[bucolic_frolic]

20. That would be inhibitory

How about taxing ammo? We tax liquor. Gasoline. Phone service. At the federal level.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. that should also go for dc . pr. vergin islands and other us territorys that dont have

representation.

[pansypoo53219]

14. automatically 18 til death you get to vote.

[questionseverything]

15. Same day registration does the same

[smirkymonkey]

16. K&R

[Joinfortmill]

17. Love it

[usaf-vet]

18. A hell of a great idea. IF you are purged or stopped from voting at the polls. NO TAXES. Lets do it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. Same day registration makes vastly more sense.

Honestly, not being "forced" to pay taxes would be completely undoable. Which taxes? Federal only? So would that mean you wouldn't have to pay whatever the federal tax on gasoline is?

The idea has not been thought through.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. "reperesentation?"

So 1770s.

[CloudWatcher]

23. Um ... no :)

I wonder how many people would give up their right to vote in exchange for paying zero taxes? How long until someone could be paid off to purge you from the voter rolls in exchange for a bribe?

How long until this turns into a poll tax? If you can't afford to pay your taxes, you can't vote. Hmm.

[Permanut]

24. I hereby offer an amendment..

That members of any cult would be barred from voting.

[Hassler]

25. The QOPee claims there is no right to vote, and they are

Partly correct. The 15th Amendment gives AA men the right to vote and the 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote, so given the QOPee claim, white men are the one group with no right to vote.