David Strom:
Frankly, I don't think that homeless people should be voting. By definition, they are incapable of managing their lives, at least at the moment, so asking that they be excluded from the pool of people who manage the lives of others seems reasonable.
What about people who get more than 30-50% of their living expenses paid for by the taxpayers over a year? Same. It's one thing to need help when unemployment strikes or in some crisis — that happens to many people during their lives and is no big deal — but quite another if someone is living off the government dime for over a year or a decade. If milking the government is your job, then you shouldn't be in the voting pool.
This isn't about punishing people. It's about ensuring that self-government works at the societal level. If you cannot govern your own life, you shouldn't be in a position to govern others'.
# posted by Ranger @ 3:17 PM
