With our U.S. national debt now over $34 trillion, along with all of the wasted tax dollars, one conservative writer says maybe it's time to consider that only people that pay income tax or the capital gains tax should be able to vote.
"What I was trying to do with the article" said John Hawkins, the writer and founder of Culurcidal.com, "The government, if they take your taxes you should get some value for your money. The government should be saying, ok this is what you're going to get for your money, this is why it's worth it. I mean, that's certainly how it works with any business."
Sadly, instead of getting anything good in return for hard-earned tax dollar, the hard-working Americans in the U.S. are treated like second class citizens.
"I was thinking about California" Hawkins told KTRH, "Where the people that pay the taxes are second class citizens because they spend all their time supporting all these homeless people in the street."
It's not a voting ability issue, it's voting accountability.
"I do think of course, we should have voting" noted Hawkins, "I just think that it's important to have people that have skin in the game having the votes. That's how I view it, I think we would be a lot better off as a country if we went that way."
With that said, he says don't expect it to happen anytime soon. Such a move would require a constitutional amendment.
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