L L wrote:
Simply Economics wrote:
This would be ridiculous. I'm all for INFORMED people voting because they value the importance of voting. I don't want people being PAID to vote. This incentivizes people who do not value voting and who are not educated voters to vote. Not good for democracy.
We can reduce barriers to voting - absentee, early voting, etc. However, we don't need to encourage higher voter turnout just to increase the % of eligible voters voting.
"we don't need to encourage higher voter turnout"
That just looks like you want lower voter turnout.
And wanting INFORMED people voting looks like you want to bring back literary tests which have been outlawed along with poll taxes.
If everyone voted, the net effect isn't people being paid to vote but a lowering of taxes for all.
How's that bad?
I'm having a hard time understanding what you are saying.
1) That just looks like you want lower voter turnout. No, it really doesn't.
2) And wanting INFORMED people voting looks like you want to bring back literary tests which have been outlawed along with poll taxes. You have a really bad habit of saying that the other poster's words make it "look like" he wants certain things. How about commenting on the ideas expressed rather than on what it "looks like"?
3) If everyone voted, the net effect isn't people being paid to vote but a lowering of taxes for all. This is pretty mysterious. How does everyone voting lower taxes for all?