• SmolderingSauna@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Pay property taxes Pay school taxes (to ‘educate’ children that aren’t theirs) Pay income taxes on social security and investment income

    Students - all non-wage-earners - shouldn’t be able to vote by your logic?

    Good ol’ founding fathers logic of ‘white male property owners only can vote’ kinda logic?!? How many people in this country would actually qualify as property owners I wonder…

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      Students - all non-wage-earners - shouldn’t be able to vote by your logic?

      Plenty of high schoolers and college students have jobs. Many before the age of 18.

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      Students - all non-wage-earners - shouldn’t be able to vote by your logic?

      I don’t know how you could possibly derive that conclusion from what they said, unless you lack a very basic understanding of how to interpret logical statements.