Why do we allow Section 8 Freeloaders to Vote?

[James Wise]

Why do we allow people who can't even afford to take care of themselves and their families the opportunity to vote? I would be in favor of a voting system directly correlated to the amount of taxes one pays.

Example --- If you are a Section 8 / Food Stamp freeloader who pays $0 in taxes, you get zero votes. If you pay $200,000 in taxes, you get 200,000 votes.

Thoughts?

[Remington Lyman]

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Why do we allow people who can't even afford to take care of themselves and their families the opportunity to vote? I would be in favor of a voting system directly correlated to the amount of taxes one pays.

Example --- If you are a Section 8 / Food Stamp freeloader who pays $0 in taxes, you get zero votes. If you pay $200,000 in taxes, you get 200,000 votes.

Thoughts?

 Just need to contribute money to politicians you want to back. I think the state level is good for us to support since we are a swing state. The city level is out of he question for us and I assume we are too small to effect federal

 Gets tricky at the city level for sure. In your Section 8 neighborhoods most everyone who votes doesn't own a property. The people who do own properties don't live in these neighborhoods and get no vote so the only Politicians who win in these areas are the ones who say "Landlord bad, Free Rent Good."

 section 8 is not city though. It is federal

 Right, but take a look at the wards in Columbus or Cleveland where a ton of the houses are all rentals. You have to live in the ward to vote in the council member election. In these wards to people who actually contribute via taxes get no vote. Only those who're living off of the working man's dime get a vote.

I agree with you. Our city council is wild. I started going to meetings and meeting them. They do not care for me at all so I am going to stop trying and focus my efforts on the state level.

 Yes exactly. Of course they don't care for you. You do not represent the same wants and needs as their voters. Trying to make you happy would be like the newbie investors out there trying to make their property's neighbors happy at the expense of the happiness of their own tenants.

 Do you do anything in the political realm or just hold up in your castle?

 I control the controllables. In my mind tying to change the rules of the game is a misuse of my time, money, and energy. I prefer to asses the rules, and then adapt my business strategy to them.

 That is smart but I got bored this last year and looked behind the curtain. I did not like what I saw so I will probably do what you just said

 Bored? Sounds like you and the wife don't have enough kids yet. Buy her some flowers on the way home and get to work Remmy.

 I have the first one coming Dec 12th. Excited to start on the next one