Do you think the U.S. should institute a civics exam to be able to vote?

[Ramo]

They indoubtably involve a poll tax. Poll taxes mean you have to pay to vote. There is no one out there that votes but doesn't pay any taxes.
Direct poll taxes, simply try to eliminate the middle man, and have the people who are voting pay taxes then and there.
This is why more people should go out an vote. Their money is being used for the upkeep of the polls, so by not voting they are wasting their money.

Once again, paying taxes doesn't guarantee the right to vote (ex-cons and minors) and you have to pay taxes regardless of whether or not you want to vote. This is fundamentally different from what poll taxes generally mean.

[Guynemer]

I stand by my earlier statement:

Some of you people scare the living **** out of me.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Lincoln
All people should not have the right to vote. Foreigners do not have the right to vote until they take a citizenship test. Natural born citizens should take the same test before being allowed to vote. Of course the Democratic party will oppose this because they survive on disinformation grilled into the minds of people who think the government should be their mommy.

as opposed to the republican party that lies through its teeth saying that it can make rich people out of the poor if there was only government to solely benefit the rich and corporations

[RGBVideo]

Gepap, at least when talking about me and my friends, 'redneck', or (jenkki)-punaniska is not a politically correct word, merely a racist term which means a Texan christian who's overweight, male, lives in rural area and has a huge arsenal of weapons. And is stupid.

[Paul Hanson]

Civics exams in order to vote? Hell no.

However, I do think that people should be given civics lessons at school. Decent ones, not the half-arsed stopgap measure that me and my mates were subjected to at school.

[boann]

Originally posted by Tuomerehu
Gepap, at least when talking about me and my friends, 'redneck', or (jenkki)-punaniska is not a politically correct word, merely a racist term which means a Texan christian who's overweight, male, lives in rural area and has a huge arsenal of weapons. And is stupid.

good grief... have you ever even been to Texas
I've spent a great deal of time there
and I've never seen a "Texan christian who's overweight, male, lives in rural area and has a huge arsenal of weapons. And is stupid"
thats just assinine bull**** sterotypical nonsense

[boann]

Originally posted by Guynemer
I stand by my earlier statement:

Some of you people scare the living **** out of me.

this is one of the first things I've read that I can
fully agree with

[Jon Shafer]

The less educated vote based more upon emotion and spur-of-the-moment swaying of opinion, and often times vote without being informed. Does anyone recall what happened in 1793 or 1852?

[Al'Kimiya]

I think candidates should have a civics exam to be able to receive votes. And IQ tests for voters... weighted votes according to some IQ scale. (Not everyone wants to study civics.)

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Skyjack666
"Should there be a civics exam to vote?"

How whould the Dems ever win?

That's a funny joke, but the truth is the Republican Party would be clobbered by this. Statistics show that the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

It's Republican voters that need an education, they are the ones who vote against their own interests. Especially true with white blue-collar workers in the South who have been trending Republican even though all their economic interests are better represented by the Democrats.

You are making the assumption that the blue collar workers in the South would agree with a Democratic economic policy (which most of them don't). Perhaps they believe in a certain economic system (lower taxes and smaller goverment), even if it may not help them as much in the short term?

Hence his point that they're voting against their interests.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

I would have thought that Florida would have proved that already.

All Florida proved was that broken and un-cleaned machines coupled with Republican malfeasance and Democratic weasalness can undermine our democratic rights.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Remember, 'cracker' is a similar insult as '******'.

The hell it is.

[RGBVideo]

good grief... have you ever even been to Texas
I've spent a great deal of time there
and I've never seen a "Texan christian who's overweight, male, lives in rural area and has a huge arsenal of weapons. And is stupid"
thats just assinine bull**** sterotypical nonsense

Missed my point?
That's _exactly_ why it isn't a politically correct word, and why only idiots or wannabe-rebels tend to use it.

I'm sorry if you misunderstood me...

And IQ tests for voters... weighted votes according to some IQ scale.

No.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by nationalist
GePap, why is universal suffrage a good thing?

It lowers war unhappiness in republics and democracies, duh!