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Voter suppression is a good idea

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“And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote,” Hyde-Smith can be heard telling a small crowd of young people outside her campaign bus in a video taken Nov. 3 and posted on online Thursday. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-says-voter-suppression-131053341.html
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  • greenbloodgreenblood Member Posts: 14,272
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    edited November 2018
    I believe she was joking when she said that. But even if she was, that’s a really stupid thing to say. In 2018, how does someone not realize everything said publicly will be scrutinized?
  • HillsboroDuckHillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
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    Mississippi Fucking Dreckfest
  • SledogSledog Member Posts: 30,483
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    Voter suppression in Floriduh going on as we speak as dem operative excludes repub ballots.

    Outraged?
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    I'd like to limit voting to only the people that are net payers of taxes and no government employees outside of members of the military should be allowed to vote. Clear conflict of interests.
  • sarktasticsarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
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    Hondo drinking a gallon of bleach is a better idea
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    Hondo drinking a gallon of bleach is a better idea

    That only takes care of a single teat sucking parasite, I'd like to create a way to address them all.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    I'd like to limit voting to only the people that are net payers of taxes and no government employees outside of members of the military should be allowed to vote. Clear conflict of interests.

    Getting rid of retiree and housewife votes should do wonders for the GOP.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    Housewives are most likely married filing jointly. Unless they married Hondo, they are net taxpayers. Many retirees are still net taxpayers.

    The ability to vote people into power who would actually cut entitlement programs would be greatly enhanced.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    Housewives are most likely married filing jointly. Unless they married Hondo, they are net taxpayers. Many retirees are still net taxpayers.

    The ability to vote people into power who would actually cut entitlement programs would be greatly enhanced.

    Since we're moving the goalpost that much, let's let anyone that pays sales, property, excise, vehicle, and gas tax vote too.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    SFGbob said:

    Housewives are most likely married filing jointly. Unless they married Hondo, they are net taxpayers. Many retirees are still net taxpayers.

    The ability to vote people into power who would actually cut entitlement programs would be greatly enhanced.

    Since we're moving the goalpost that much, let's let anyone that pays sales, property, excise, vehicle, and gas tax vote too.
    How did I move the goal posts? I never limited it to net payer of income taxes. I just said net payers of taxes. You pay more than you take you get to vote, you take more than you pay, no vote for you.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    Housewives are most likely married filing jointly. Unless they married Hondo, they are net taxpayers. Many retirees are still net taxpayers.

    The ability to vote people into power who would actually cut entitlement programs would be greatly enhanced.

    Since we're moving the goalpost that much, let's let anyone that pays sales, property, excise, vehicle, and gas tax vote too.
    How did I move the goal posts? I never limited it to net payer of income taxes. I just said net payers of taxes. You pay more than you take you get to vote, you take more than you pay, no vote for you.
    Including a spouse that doesn't work is moving the goalposts. Might as well include dependents at that point.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    Just because the spouse doesn’t work doesn’t mean they aren’t a net taxpayer, even when my kids were younger and my wife didn’t work we as a couple were still net payers of taxes. My wife was just as responsible for our tax bill as I was, her name was on the return and her name is on the property tax bill.

    No moving of the goal posts
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    Just because the spouse doesn’t work doesn’t mean they aren’t a net taxpayer, even when my kids were younger and my wife didn’t work we as a couple were still net payers of taxes. My wife was just as responsible for our tax bill as I was, her name was on the return and her name is on the property tax bill.

    No moving of the goal posts

    Nope, you were paying the taxes, sorry mate.
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,538
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    You play to win the game.

    If I were a politician id do everything possible to suppress voting on the other side

    It's the American way
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    SFGbob said:

    Just because the spouse doesn’t work doesn’t mean they aren’t a net taxpayer, even when my kids were younger and my wife didn’t work we as a couple were still net payers of taxes. My wife was just as responsible for our tax bill as I was, her name was on the return and her name is on the property tax bill.

    No moving of the goal posts

    Nope, you were paying the taxes, sorry mate.
    Really? So if I don't write the check for the property taxes or to the IRS they won't come after my wife as well as myself?

    So I can just put everything in my wife's name and stop paying taxes. Cool.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    Just because the spouse doesn’t work doesn’t mean they aren’t a net taxpayer, even when my kids were younger and my wife didn’t work we as a couple were still net payers of taxes. My wife was just as responsible for our tax bill as I was, her name was on the return and her name is on the property tax bill.

    No moving of the goal posts

    Nope, you were paying the taxes, sorry mate.
    Really? So if I don't write the check for the property taxes or to the IRS they won't come after my wife as well as myself?

    So I can just put everything in my wife's name and stop paying taxes. Cool.
    Being held liable doesn't mean she's paying taxes. I could cosign a loan for you to buy a car and be held liable. Doesn't mean I'm paying off your car.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    Being held liable means you're financial responsible for that debt if the other person stops payment. Does your wife know she doesn't really own your house, that only you do?
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    Being held liable means you're financial responsible for that debt if the other person stops payment. Does your wife know she doesn't really own your house, that only you do?

    Do you just want to just the caveat that non-working spouses can vote under your regime?
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    No, because if the family are still net tax consumers I don't want the non-working, or working spouse for that matter to vote.

    Skin in the game. The non-working wife who's husband still pays all the bills making them net taxpayers has skin in the game.
  • UWhuskytskeetUWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,104
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    SFGbob said:

    No, because if the family are still net tax consumers I don't want the non-working, or working spouse for that matter to vote.

    Skin in the game. The non-working wife who's husband still pays all the bills making them net taxpayers has skin in the game.

    Let's just compromise and give her 3/5 vote.
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