September 05, 2011 05:37 PM UTC

The Poor Shouldn't be allowed to vote?

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• by: Urban Snowshoer

According to this article , which is not from The Onion, the poor apparently shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

This is hardly the first, nor is it likely to be the last, opinion to piece to argue for disenfranchising parts of the adult population. It is also far from the first to use the argue that rich landowners should have more say because ostensibly pay more in taxes. Do sales taxes count? What about young people, should be disenfranchise young people as well because they aren’t as far along, and probably don’t pay as many taxes and their parents do either?

One wonders if the poor were a reliable Republican vote, would the authors feel differently? For whatever merit voter ID laws have, arguing that we should disenfranchise the poor (or anyone else) damages proponents credibility.