Should Only tax Payers be allowed to vote on raising tax issues?
December 28, 2008
Bee Bee asked:
Are you tired of people that can’t or want work, calling the shots on how your tax dollars are spent.?
I am not talking about the diabled, or the old.
What about college kids that’s never worked ,or paid any tax.?
Are you tired of people that can’t or want work, calling the shots on how your tax dollars are spent.?
I am not talking about the diabled, or the old.
What about college kids that’s never worked ,or paid any tax.?
18 Responses to “Should Only tax Payers be allowed to vote on raising tax issues?”
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December 31st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
If only this were the case…..
January 1st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Unfortunately the country is populated by all kinds of citizens, not all that you might approve of, and they are all equal in this country and are entitled to certain rights and benefits. That’s the program here, sorry if it doesn’t seem fair.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Everyone pays some kind of tax. Even the college kid who has never worked pays tax when he buys a bag of chips.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Have you ever bought something from a store? You paid a sales tax. Everyone pays taxes.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Based on the preamble of the Consitution, it can be translated on EVERY issue that if you do not pay taxes, you do not vote.
They mention the Indians, but it is followed by the phrase “who do not pay taxes.” Thus, they prevented Indians from voting because they do not pay taxes. Some label this as racist, but I believe it is because the intent is that non-tax payers do not get a say in where the money goes or how it is spent.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am
There’s an argument to be made that only taxpayers can vote, period!
January 10th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Well, if they don’t vote, how will we get them interested in the political process? Besides, what they are voting on may affect their future even if it doesn’t affect them presently. I have faith in our system even though sometimes it doesn’t seem to work in the short term.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
They have a right to vote on Tax issues because even if they dont pay taxes right now, they may in the future when the new laws are in place. It affects everyone in the long run.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:12 am
In the 18th century, you had to be a land owner to vote in this country. I have the same problem paying property tax to send my neighbors kids to school, but I realize it’s for the common good. I still reserve the right to complain about it though:)
When you’re talking about taxes, fair has got nothing to do with it.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:55 am
How silly.
That’s like asking “Shouldn’t only legal residents get schooling and health care and social services and tax refunds?”
January 18th, 2009 at 11:00 am
even people who get welfare pay taxes in some form or another, so your question is pointless
January 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Those college kids may not pay taxes now, but, the policies set today WILL affect their taxes in the future. So, yes, they should have a say.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:34 am
After seeing how Americans are voting in this election I would have to agree with that on every issue! Where were these morons when I was in sales!
January 24th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Since when can we vote on raising or lowering taxes. The politicians decide how much they will charge us in taxes to pay for their raises and ‘pork-barrel’ spending!
If you work you pay. If you DO NOT WORK you get a government handout and you continue to vote for a ‘nanny government’.
Millions of our children are paying off student loans and the liberals want to tax them to give free education to illegal immegrants and $4,000 awards (Billary) just to delay working and go to college.
Nobody asks your opinion before they take your money! Their rhetoric gets them votes and that is all that counts.
January 27th, 2009 at 12:42 am
They do Federally.
Only Congress can vote to raise taxes.
Locally it is different, this is the reason for high local or State sales taxes,. The lower income people do not vote for higher sales tax, landowners do to keep property taxes lower.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:33 am
College students pay taxes every time they buy things that they need. Everyone should have a say on how our tax dollars are spent because everyone contributes one way or another, whether it’s groceries, or snacks, or school supplies etc.
Sometimes it may not feel like it because we work our patootie off and at the end of the year it doesn’t seem as though we get much back, and or we have to pay even more back to the IRS. What I would like is for the Welfare system to be a little more strict so that most of our tax dollars don’t go there and it goes more towards our schools for our children. All our kids deserve the best education, and all our schools throughout this Country deserve everything they need in order for students to get a fair education. 
And not all schools have everything they need and it saddens me because those students who go to those schools, don’t have much for their education, and are doing without. And they deserve better.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
The typical rationale for taxation assumes that some property is owned in common by people within certain geographical areas or people of a certain citizenry. By this rationale, it is reasonable to force those people to give up a portion of their wealth to maintain that property.
The view you suggest in your question changes the grouping somewhat. You are effectively saying that “tax payers” collectively own these properties. These tax payers presumably can force each other to devote portions of their wealth to maintain the common properties. The implication of your question is that they would probably not choose to spend much on the “non tax payers”. This group of people who (up till now) have lived to a certain extent on tax expenditures would have more incentive to provide for themselves and so become “tax payers” and participate in forcing their fellow tax payers to contribute to the common property.
Nevermind that tax payers and non tax payers alike often cajole the tax system into providing benefits to themselves personally. This system was supposed to provide for property deemed to be held collectively. Your question implies a recognition that many people on the poor end of the spectrum (whether by choice or circumstance) use the system to provide for their personal needs. If you are willing to assert that their condition renders them as people owned collectively by the “tax payers” who give them support, then your suggestion has merit. You must know though where that leads.
Your question fails to recognize that many people on the other end of the spectrum, the wealthy, choose (no circumstance here – they choose) to make the system work to their personal benefit as well. Why condemn the peasants taking pittances when the wealthy are enjoying fortunes at the expense of the “common good”?
So it seems that most people recognizing at least some of my objections (plus some other valid ones that I’m sure I’ve overlooked), come to the conclusion that the poor are just as much collective owners of the common property and that they ought to have a say in its distribution. Personally, I reject this view AND the supposition in your question. I challenge the underlying notion that any property is ever (or can be) owned collectively. It is this error that gives rise to the problems that I think you’re seeing. Any solution that admits that there is a common good will leave open the near certainty that people will use the system to enrich themselves personally.
I would not pay for it if I didn’t know that the penalties for not paying taxes threaten my life and liberty.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:33 am
It might seem like the ideal notion, however there are too many logistical problems. The enforcement of such a law would be extremely expensive and most probably would not pass a constitutional test. Should only parents vote for school board members? Should only licensed drivers get to vote on road bonds? I like the idea but feel it would be impossible to ever implement.