@1 A fun counter to this ridiculousness would be percent of total income handed away in taxes used as a weighting tool instead.
I actually had a conversation with someone once about how just because you pay more in absolute tax dollars doesn't mean you get a larger chunk of public services and properties, it's like he had never thought about it before.
I'll go along with Perkins, as long as I can choose the price point. Here's my deal: everyone gets one vote to start. For each whole billion dollars paid in federal personal income tax, or just outright contributed to the Treasury, you can have one extra vote that year. (Cover our entire federal budget deficit for the year and you earn about 600 extra votes! Cover the entire $3.8 Trillion budget yourself, and we'll give you 3800 votes.) How's that, Champ?
Rich people don't fund our government, though. While they make most of the money, they also weasel out of most of the taxes. "Takers."
As it stands right now, rich people and corporations already have a ridiculously disproportionate amount of control over the way this country is run. Instead of talking about giving them more, we need to be looking at ways to take control away from them.
Poor people pay plenty in sales taxes, excise taxes, etc. Their rent payments pay the landlord's property taxes. But what use is reason with the 1 percenters? They're like the pre-revolution French nobility who would laugh at the mangled bodies of peasants crushed by their carriages.
At least their goal of returning our society to feudalism, indentured servitude, and mass poverty is out in the open now.
I say do it; these assholes are so cheap that as soon as this comes to pass rich people will vote to have their tax rate dropped to 0% and they'll lose all their voting power.
His proposal is essentially: "If this country is working extraordinarily well for you as it is, then only YOU get to vote whether or not to keep it as it is."
@13 that is the goal of the republican party and the 1 percenters, to limit as much as possible access to voting to old, affluent white people. It is the only way republicans will be able to remain in power. So, we have laws preventing felons from voting (and surprise! look how effective the war on drugs has been at turning minorities into felons, with many of the convictions based on fraudulent behavior by corrupt police or for minor pot possession), voter rolls getting purged, 'valid' ID requirements, voter intimidation, allocation of only a few voting machines to densely populated minority neighborhoods (resulting in hours-long lines to vote), curtailed early voting access... it all adds up. Happily Washington state is for the most part free of this nonsense, but much of the country is not.
How about: The more paper dollars you hold on to,the more each of us has to work to fight with our lives and our children's lives to protect those dollars and make them worth something.
The alternative is we print a brand new currency tomorrow, and everyone starts with zero.
This guy is the same guy that compared the "attacks" on the rich to a wave of Nazi attacks on Jews ahead of the Holocaust. Asked offstage if the proposal was serious, Perkins said: "I intended to be outrageous, and it was." He's a troll trolling the media. Don't waste a second of energy on this Douchenoggin.
Ireland used to allow an extra vote to business owners. Wasn't all that long ago either when they stopped. The corporations are people too is a meme that wasn't borne with Mitt Romney.
Money doesn't count anymore. Sure it will buy you a few votes from ignorant republicans who want favors but for any sane politician to solicit votes or favors from any republican in 2016 will be self destructing. The republicans are walking a tightrope in this election cycle because of their poor record of supporting the sitting President. boner and his republican butt buddies have given up trying to get rid of Obamacare, why? Because it's working for the American people. All that time and money spent trying to undo the Affordable Health Care Act is falling apart. The American people should back charge the republican dunderheads for every minute they spent trying to repeal the bill. Instead of taking care of business for the American people the republicans spent their time (on our dollar) challenging the President on every bill or issue that came up. That's not what we pay these idiots to do.
I actually had a conversation with someone once about how just because you pay more in absolute tax dollars doesn't mean you get a larger chunk of public services and properties, it's like he had never thought about it before.
Rich people don't fund our government, though. While they make most of the money, they also weasel out of most of the taxes. "Takers."
How about you get a vote for every percentage point of your effective tax rate?
Votes are precious. If we're going to sell them, they should cost a LOT.
At least their goal of returning our society to feudalism, indentured servitude, and mass poverty is out in the open now.
What an asshat.
Mainly I would just think it's funny seeing Mitt Romney having zero votes.
From the sounds of it, Perkins "proposal" would get us about 9/10ths of the way there.
How about: The more paper dollars you hold on to,the more each of us has to work to fight with our lives and our children's lives to protect those dollars and make them worth something.
The alternative is we print a brand new currency tomorrow, and everyone starts with zero.
How'd ya like us now?