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Originally posted by Sun Tzu
The hardest aspect for me to truly understand is the convergence of the deciding votes being in key areas. Does this mean that minds that think alike flock together? A city is more predominatley liberal than conservative, or other potical persuasion? I understand that poeple win terms because one party gets more than another, IMO it seems the vote across the country seems low because they feel their vote doesnt matter. I understand what is being said about the deciding areas, but that brings up another argument that I saw coming out earlier in this thread.
At first I thought this person was an cold corperate asshole spouting off (he was temping for Rush-who annoys me), but after hearing his whole argument I saw his side made reasonable sense as well:
Those who pay higher taxes should get more votes and if you dont pay taxes you dont vote. As I said when first hearing this I thought the guy was nuts, but he was looking at it in terms of what he is getting for his money. Why should someone who pays $900 in taxes get the same say as $20,000? My first reaction was "yeah so the elite wealthy can run the place", well they do anyway it seems to sometimes. I then looked at it in this sense two people go to the gas pump one pays $1.23 for a gallon of gas and the other pays $5.50 per gallon. What is person B getting any different than person A-nothing just more of a financial hickey. Of course I suppose this gets deep into what the 2 parties are all about.
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as seretogis said, when you elected somebody into office, you are electing them to do more than just economic stuff.
government goes way beyond that.
so, a poor person gets no representation in areas like gay rights or other issues just because they dont pay enough taxes?