Would you support a law preventing any person on welfare from voting in political elections? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Yes...if you are a loafer and do not pay taxes you should not have the right to vote on issues that might increase others taxes.

Answer 2

My neighbor has been laid off. He is a hard worker but may need to go on welfare temporarily until he can find work. He would normally vote but not be alloud to vote. How would someone know that he is not working when he goes into a polling place. Would he be required to wear a blue circle like the Nazis did with yellow stars for Jews and pink triangles for homosexuals? What about his wife. She is ill and can't work outside the house. Since she is not working she should not vote either? How about the little old man who served his country as a soldier in WWII and worked hard all his life to make things better for generations to come? some are saying he should not vote because he is on welfare? Take away someone's constitutional rights just because they don't meet THEIR standards. How generous of these prigs. But than again there are those who support those who have been slowly eroding our rights away haven't they? The so called "patriot" act and the countless executive orders Bush signed that would make him a dictator in case of another attack line 9/11. Yes, it does make sense some on the right, especially the neocons and the far right would think that way.

Most people believe in the Constitution and therefore the people on welfare should vote.

Answer 3

Let's look at it from a different perspective. Native Americans don't pay property taxes and they still vote for County Assessors. They do not use the probate courts in my state (we have 22 tribes) and they still get to vote for probate judge. This issue was settled in my state for the last time in 1948 regarding Native Americans and school bond issues. Just because tribal lands are not subject to property taxes doesn't mean they aren't interested in better schools. Also, what assumptions are you making about welfare recepients. How about the elderly poor who live on social security? What about Medicaid and Medicare? You are working from a flawed assumption. You assume that people on welfare are lazy. What about a mother who has been abandoned and gets AFDC? What about the working poor who get food stamps? Poverty is not a crime. If you can prove to me that every welfare recepient is a lesser person than you--well, come to think of it, don't bother. Is there a job for every person on welfare? What about those with disabilities? Since when did poverty become a reason to disenfranchise anyone?

Answer 4

No I would not support such a bill. A lot of people on welfare are intelligent voters.
A person on welfare should have as much right to vote as an 18 yr old in high school.

Answer 5

No!
Even though I do believe the welfare system should be abolished! (we are a Capitalist country not a Socialist country)
the "poor" and the desperate all united states citizens ..therefore are in titled to vote and voice their opinions!
this is NOT a Communist Country! and voting is not a privilege its a right!

Answer 6

No, being poor should never determine whether or not you get to vote. As a US citizen that is your right. Reminds me of the times when we had poll taxes, which was designed to keep poor blacks, native Americans and immigrants from voting.

As long as you're a legal US citizen that is your right.

Answer 7

Elections are a puppet show and we are all slaves there is no such thing as freedom just an illusion of making choice. There is no point voting as all politicians are puppets and you know nothing as your a brainwashed sheep unable to understand anything on how the world is run go back to sleep you seem a bit thick to me. If you know what 322 is or understand 33rd degree I will take back my comment calling you a idiot

Answer 8

No. That is not a democracy in action. The only "exclusion" law I agree with is Citizenship and Felony Conviction.

Answer 9

How about people below 30 years old? the handicapped? or those of a religion we dont like, or those over 70 years old?

where would you stop?

Do you realize that life is a lot like mathematics? that for very same reason there are millionaires and billionaires that there must inevitably be people who are penniless? If you truly dont like penniless welfare people, you are really saying you dont like the system that generates them and generates super rich people as well.
someone wins someone loses....you cant accept the winners of the game and not accept the losers.

Answer 10

We tried that 220 years ago, when only landowners were able to vote. The process is a bit different now, and you can't turn back the clock.

Answer 11

Absolutely not. The government doesn't have the right to do anything that we can't do ourselves namely protect our right of life, liberty, and property. When we allow the government to do more than this we have started down the road to tyranny.