[Jabberwalker]

andyt andyt:

Everybody pays property tax, one way or another, unless they live in a cardboard box. Very few people who live in cardboard boxes vote.

... and if they do, they invariably vote "Orange".

Anyway, property tax is just about the only source of revenue for the Municipal level and all other levels should keep their greedy hands off.

[herbie]

andyt andyt:

Let's have voting based on IQ - you get as many votes as your IQ, minus 80. That will still favor the rich, but at least prevent some of their idiot hangers on from having much, if any, influence.

And keep polling booths and printed ballots so you have to get off your ass and know how to use a pencil, not just click "Like" while sitting in your underwear.
I'd even make a law to staple your proof of ballot on your tax return for a $50 credit.

[Prof_Chomsky]

stratos stratos:

Prof_Chomsky

Actually I was just pointing out some more instances to back up your statement about majority rule being stomped on by the minority percent or outside persons in the case of the auto plant.

Yet you in return advocate that the minority 1% be stomped on by the majority when it means that the 1% are the rich.

So now you have me confused are you for the right that the majority rule or for the right that the minority rule when they are being made unequal by the majority.

already answered:

Prof_Chomsky Prof_Chomsky:

When it comes to stomping on the rights of the minority, that’s why you have a constitution and judiciary branch of government. The majority may dislike how a minority lives their lives, but ultimately that’s why the constitution exists.

If anything that 1% now controls politics and pisses on the other 99% continually. That’s a hell of a lot less fair.