The Theory Of Misinformation Argues For Restoring Literacy Tests For Voting
This will not be very popular but I think voting and the right to vote should be tied to not only being literate enough to understand what is happening. That’s a very slippery metric. How would you measure that? I have a better one. How about a skin-in-the-game metric? Giving people who have never contributed to society the right to vote just encourages freeloading. Those who don’t contribute will always fall for those who promise the most freebies. If you can prove that you have paid income tax for at least one year during the last 5 years, you vote. That would be easy to measure. And easy enough to fall into to avoid the rich-only trap.
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