[TheForge] Stupid comments

[Roy Wilson]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:30:30 -0400, Bruce Freeman wrote:

>Sure, Roy.  Makes it so much easier to disenfranchise people!  A farmer or rancher needs to have (own, preferably) land.  A chemist, like me, really doesn't.  So why should I have to, just to vote?  A poll tax is more honest.  If that's the kind of democracy you want!

You don't own a home?  You certainly shouldn't have a vote in LOCAL
politics at all - every time the dems on our town board try to get
Zoning instituted, the ONLY people for it are the non-landholders.

At the Federal level, only landowners should have a vote. 
"Disenfranchise"?  Not at all.  Nothing is barring anyone from
owning land.  Just BUY some.

Costs too much to buy a home in NJ?  Buy an acre or three up here
by me in the Adirondacks.  Once you get north of the Park,
pastureland goes for $150/acre, wasteland (too rocky or wet to
farm, graze, or build) for around $50/acre.  Or buy some of the
government auction land - so what if it's the vertical face of a
cliff?  It's only a buck an "acre".



Roy Wilson
General Operations Director
Zanzibar Internet Land Line Administrator

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