Being poor has nothing to do with this - this is your way of spinning what I said. Your example says that a person can work and make money and get by without ever having an ID, which is really BS for the most part and if it's true, then the non-tax-paying person doesn't deserve to vote. I don't think that a drug dealer who might make 2000/week who doesn't pay taxes should vote either, but the dealer probably is smart enough to get an ID.
You're giving nothing but excuses, not reasons. The kind of people you are talking about are like the people who came here to Charlotte after Katrina. They were given free room and board and then promptly decided to abuse the hospitaility by staying drunk, being loud all hours of the night, and making life miserable for their hosts. Their excuse was: you have to understand - this is how we acted in New Orleans. It seems that the world has to put up with bad and stupid behavior simply because somebody is "disenfranchised." Now you're defending people who haven't got enough sense to get an ID card. I don't get what you're defending - are these people really going to vote? Please tell me something besides "it's too hard to get an ID for these people" because if it is, then how would they even get to the voting booth? Your logic is so skewed here. Talking about how Jim Crow did it has about as much relevance as talking about how the Romans fed Jews to the lions. Talking about how Detroit is illiterate simply gives me more reason to think that IDs should be required. Voting is a right in our country, but rights come with responsibilities to be good citizens. Like I said previously - if there's a serious argument here, please present it. "Too hard" isn't a reason. <wow it's been years since I took part in a CF-Community political discussion.> > Matthew Small <chestypul...@beachbum.net> wrote: > > > > So if a person can do all that and avoid paying taxes because that > person doesn't have an ID, then that person doesn't deserve to vote, > and in fact, should be in jail for federal tax evasion. > > Poor people don't have to pay taxes. Remember? Us rich people do > that. > > But good policy point: only the rich should be able to vote. Yup, if > you make less than $350k/year you don't deserve to vote. > > The key to success is to disenfranchise the poor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339161 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
