Talking to a local yesterday.

[safeinOhio]

He was talking about intelligence test for voting as a good idea. He changed his mind when I suggested just making a college degree a requirement.

[Mr. Quackers]

1. Dunno

Have met some very semi-illiterate fucks with college degrees.

[safeinOhio]

2. I agree with that.

My point being, where do you draw the line. My suggestion was and is, not having to pay any taxes if not allowed to vote for any reason. No taxation without representation. That was a reason for the American Reveolution. Also, many repubs would be more than happy to trade their vote for not paying any taxes.

[PatSeg]

3. Oh, good point about republicans!

I think all students must take a civics class before graduating from high school and that voter registration should be automatic when one turns 18.

[Mariana]

5. Nevertheless, it's a great comment

to shut up a Republicans who doesn't have a degree, and who also says there should be an intelligence test for voting.

[dameatball]

4. Of course he will also want the test to be in English only.

[akraven]

16. He'd lose that point here -

many are also in Athabascan, Eskimo, Aleut...…………...

[dameatball]

17. Good. But they wil try and do whatever it takes. Actually it's a moot point.

No voter intelligence tests without office holder intelligence tests!!!!

[akraven]

18. Amen, dameatball -

2/3 of Repubs would never hold office again!

[jodymarie aimee]

6. No no no

You don't know what you are saying...back in the 50s when the whites in the Southern States would give blacks tests they did not give whites in order to vote...insane hard tests...

Please don't go there, we got murdered and beaten up helping black folks register to vote...

[ProfessorGAC]

8. I Think It Was Intended As A. . .

. . .STFU snark to a troglodyte who thinks he's smarter than he is.

One could go down a checklist of things until one gets to the STFU point with these types.

We know a guy who does a LOT of complaining about taxes, middle easterners & hispanics (oddly enough,not black folks though), and fancies himself a pretty smart cookie (until he came over to play Jeopardy; he doesn't want to do that anymore)

Well, he talks about things like this too, and i said "Why don't we go back to the original constitution, like you guys talk about, and then only property owners can vote." He lives in a tiny apartment above a bar.

Obviously the idea of a specific voting test HE couldn't meet changed his attitude in a hurry.

That's what i mean by hitting the STFU point.

[jodymarie aimee]

11. the part of history I am referring to

is by no means funny, or fodder for snark...death is not funny.

[MissB]

13. It isn't snark, but that seems to be how you are perceiving it.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. We Will Have To Agree To Disagree

I believe you have misinterpreted both the OP and my post.

[FakeNoose]

7. Unfortunately your idea could backfire

I get your point that if a person isn't allowed to vote then he also shouldn't have to pay taxes. But the problem is that a lot of people choose not to vote out of laziness or indifference. If those lazy people got rewarded by not having to pay taxes, then we'd have a nation of people who deliberately refrain from voting. That's not your intention at all, I'm sure.

[Adrahil]

9. Lol... sure, SAT of 1100 minimum. NT

Asshats.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. To refine the taxation idea a bit...

How about, if you're too lazy to register or too lazy to show up (mail in, etc.) then you still pay taxes.
But if you can show that your right to vote was denied (ie roll purging) or significantly impeded (ie one working machine for a large neighborhood) then the no-tax deal kicks in.

[Bettie]

12. I do wonder sometimes if we need to have

some kind of "knowledge of how government works" test for people seeking political office. Or even the test immigrants take to become citizens. I have a feeling it would winnow out...some.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. A lot. I'm starting a thread on this.