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On 2024-11-30 7:13 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2024-11-30, gm <gregorymorrow@msn.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ayn Rand would note this is what you get when governments favor the
>> least productive or even destructive elements of society, while creating
>> difficulties and denouncing those who are productive - and all the while
>> expecting the *productive* to pick up the bills...
> 
> 
> My vote is worth as much as Elon's or a LA street junkie's. Elon gives
> to vote. I'm neutral. The junkie receives.
> Personally, I'd like nobody under 24 to be able to vote and nobody who
> doesn't pay income tax either.
> 
> Oh...or a flat tax only. The rich s.o.b's pay more because they buy more.
> The poor pay less because they buy less. And...everybody, of every age,
> gets to vote, providing they can provide a single store receipt showing
> they paid a flat tax on something.
> 
> I have many, many solutions. Nobody listens!
>   
> 
> 
Hardly surprising!