How about a non voter's tax. 5% of your income for each time you did not vote in national or state elections in the previous year. Otherwise a wall of shame where the photos of those who do not vote are publicized, and mocked.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:02 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > >> >> This is a bad thing? You can damn well bet that I badger friends, >> family and neighbors about voting. It's not only your right, it's your >> civic duty. >> >> Antonin Scalia has come out and said that not only is there no right >> to a secret ballot, he opposes the idea. I often don't agree with him >> but this one gives me pause and makes me wonder. He says that >> democracy shouldn't necessarily be easy and comfortable, that people >> should be willing to defend their choices. There's a lot to agree with >> there, for me. On the other hand, a hyper-politicized environment >> makes it all the more likely to have situations where you would get >> fired for voting for the "wrong" candidate or voting a certain way >> that a company thinks is against it's interests. >> >> But making people feel shame for not voting? Trying to pressure people >> to go out and vote? Yeah, I really don't have a problem with that so >> much. If your righteous anger is all about defending your civic >> apathy...well, I have a starkly different set of values. >> > > Everyone who does not vote, should be shamed. > > Everyone who does vote, should be allowed to do so in private and never > forced to tell who they voted for. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:351736 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
