Search This Blog

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The more you pay in taxes the more your vote should count.

David Harsanyi takes a stupid Ezra Klein idea (aren't they all?) and gives it a reasonable spin.

Since he’s so concerened with the consequences of political decisions, why not give proportional weight to the votes of the productive and unproductive. The more you pay in taxes the more your vote counts. This way those who vote to increase the size of government but contribute little to keeping that government afloat can sit on the sidelines?
We're all trying to solve the "free rider" prblem.

1 comment:

LibertyAtStake said...

If you drop the weighting aspect, I would say "no representation without taxation" actually stands a reasonable chance in the coming years.

d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”