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Just because someone doesn't make 50K+ a year and pay taxes they shouldnt vote?

OK lets go this way with it. Most Coal miners in the area pay there income taxes. They work hard and ear every dime they make. YET a large amount of them never finish high school or get there GED, SO should they be allowed to vote? Or are they Ignorant Middle Class Scum? Some probably don't have an IQ of 60 but they make 70 grand a year. Can They Vote?

Obviously your for taking the vote away from anyone that's not your kinda class people. Your post is absurd. Ridiculous. Ignorant. Uneducated. Merely a figment of your illiterate brain.

Lincoln


But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Not and that government of the wealthy people, by the wealthy people, for the wealthy people, shall not perish from the earth.[/B]

Gimme a Break? People who pay income taxes? There are plenty of great people who have major obstacles in there life that has kept them from making a great salary. Just because someone doesnt make a lot of money doesnt make them any less of an American as you or me.

You can ramble all you want, Wildcat23. Your argument lacks any logic, intelligence, and/or continuity. Still, assuming that you may pay at least some income tax, you still get to vote. Of course, if my assumptions are wrong and you pay no income taxes, you shouldn't vote.

You need to be reminded that my premise is that those who pay no income taxes don't vote- not that those with little or no formal education don't vote. Your comprehension is lacking. As for your allegedly hard working but uneducated coal miners, I would submit that most of them, though of minimal education, pay income taxes and, thus, should have the right to vote. Lincoln, a man of humble beginnings who worked hard and became a lawyer, actually didn't pay income taxes. Of course, that was because the Sixteenth Amendment was not passed until about 50 years after his death. Of course, I'm sure you knew that.

There may be valid arguments against my proposal. However, Wildcat23 certainly hasn't been able to express any of them. Still, if he pays income taxes, he should vote.