There’s this picture going around where Sen. Miriam is advocating that only taxpayers should get to vote. I hope people realize that the logical next step to that is that people who pay more taxes should get more votes. It’s a slippery slope towards money being more important than citizenship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_citizenship
i agree… a democracy that excludes the less privileged rings hollow to me.
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