Perkins: The rich should get more votes

[kidrocks]

Hmmm, interesting. What say you?





Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes - Feb. 14, 2014

Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote -- and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes.

 

[RDD_1210]

Waiting for the first corporate stooge to arrive here and say "He's right".

 

[Jarhead]

lol.

Funny stuff.

 

[kidrocks]

Waiting for the first corporate stooge to arrive here and say "He's right".

Wait for it...

 

[NYcarbineer]

Waiting for the first corporate stooge to arrive here and say "He's right".

It's actually a widely held position by the rightwing inmates here, or least some variation of it.

 

[Jarhead]

Waiting for the first corporate stooge to arrive here and say "He's right".

It's actually a widely held position by the rightwing inmates here, or least some variation of it.

no it isn't.

Maybe one or two.....but on the most part, conservatives believe all US citizens MUST have the right to vote

 

[NYcarbineer]

Of course under this plan, if the Rich voted themselves lower taxes, they'd lose those extra votes next time around.

 

[Jarhead]

waiting for the first left wing lunatioc to say

"poor people are the ones who use most of the entitlement programs so they should be the only ones allowed to vote"

 

[NYcarbineer]

Waiting for the first corporate stooge to arrive here and say "He's right".

It's actually a widely held position by the rightwing inmates here, or least some variation of it.

no it isn't.

Maybe one or two.....but on the most part, conservatives believe all US citizens MUST have the right to vote

If you can find the threads about how people on welfare, or paying no taxes, shouldn't be able to vote,

you might be surprised how many around here agreed with those ideas.

 

[rightwinger]

Who cares?

They already have the votes they need.....the ones in Congress

 

[rightwinger]

waiting for the first left wing lunatioc to say

"poor people are the ones who use most of the entitlement programs so they should be the only ones allowed to vote"

That is not true

Most of our entitlement programs help the wealthy. They are the ones who should not be allowed to vote

 

[kidrocks]

waiting for the first left wing lunatioc to say

"poor people are the ones who use most of the entitlement programs so they should be the only ones allowed to vote"

So you agree with Perkins?

 

[KNB]

Conservatives believe that ALL US citizens MUST have the right to vote?

Is that why Conservatives opposed giving women and black people the right to vote? It wasn't Liberal Progressives trying to stop women and minorities from voting. You Conservatives understand that, right?

 

[martybegan]

waiting for the first left wing lunatioc to say

"poor people are the ones who use most of the entitlement programs so they should be the only ones allowed to vote"

That is not true

Most of our entitlement programs help the wealthy. They are the ones who should not be allowed to vote

Tax deductions are not entitlements, no matter how much you want to spin it that way.

 

[norwegen]

Waiting for the first corporate stooge to arrive here and say "He's right".

It's actually a widely held position by the rightwing inmates here, or least some variation of it.

no it isn't.

Maybe one or two.....but on the most part, conservatives believe all US citizens MUST have the right to vote

Especially the three-year-olds. They learn so fast nowadays.

 

[rightwinger]

waiting for the first left wing lunatioc to say

"poor people are the ones who use most of the entitlement programs so they should be the only ones allowed to vote"

That is not true

Most of our entitlement programs help the wealthy. They are the ones who should not be allowed to vote

Tax deductions are not entitlements, no matter how much you want to spin it that way.

Sure they are

If you receive a tax deduction and others who make the same as you do not....that is an entitlement

 

[boilermaker55]

Quite simple isn't it unless one chooses not to understand.

That is not true

Most of our entitlement programs help the wealthy. They are the ones who should not be allowed to vote

Tax deductions are not entitlements, no matter how much you want to spin it that way.

Sure they are

If you receive a tax deduction and others who make the same as you do not....that is an entitlement

 

[martybegan]

That is not true

Most of our entitlement programs help the wealthy. They are the ones who should not be allowed to vote

Tax deductions are not entitlements, no matter how much you want to spin it that way.

Sure they are

If you receive a tax deduction and others who make the same as you do not....that is an entitlement

No, it isn't. Entitlements involve checks from the government, not you not having to pay the government because of X.

 

[Defiant1]

Hmmm, interesting. What say you?





Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes - Feb. 14, 2014

Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote -- and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes.

After reading the article it sounds like it's "fair" just like "fair" share.

 

[bendog]

Well, in effect, haven't we already approved of this approach, and isn't that what is at the heart of Citizens (hah) Untied. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine had printing presses. To influence public opinion, and get votes, the printed "broad sheets," one large piece of paper, on which entire essays were printed, and nailed them up in public places. Paine never really had money, and Franklin was self-made by virtue of relatively non-political "books."

While at some point, the internet and social media may act as an intellectual conduint. But at the present time, a group of wealthy individuals who choose to create a corporate entity with millions of dollars, and publish anything they want to about a public figure, unless the public figure can somehow meet the unmeetable legal standard of proving actual malice as well as a false statement.