• golli@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    If you are too young to work you shouldn’t have to vote

    Makes it sound like a chore, not sure if that was intended. The phrasing however somewhat leads to another completely different discussion, whether or not it would be a good idea to require everyone to vote (even if they just mark their ballot invalid) to combat low voter turnouts.

    But as with other arguments, we again don’t tie voting rights to having a job otherwise we would deny them from the elderly or sick aswell. I think in this context the argument is sometimes made that when you have a job you are forced to pay taxes and therefore should be allowed to vote, but there are other taxes like sales tax that everybody pays earlier.

    This of course won’t solve all the parties being shit tho.

    Now that is the truth.

    • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      I meant if you are too young to work you shouldn’t be able to vote, but forgot about people too old or sick too work yeah.

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        11 months ago

        I feel like this reasoning would change character of the right to vote from something inherent, to something that has to be earned. Which i am not really a fan of.