[Vision2020] Are You Smart Enough to Be a Citizen?

Robert Dickow dickow at turbonet.com
Sat Dec 7 12:38:09 PST 2013


Well, this “take-a-test to keep one’s citizenship” idea sounds like Big Government, and would be expensive to enforce and administer. Why not just grant citizenship only to landowners, and give them votes based on acres owned? Sound like a plan, or what?

 

Think about the exam every 10 years thing. Imagine walking up to the voting booth only to discover that your citizenship had run out 3 minutes ago? Statistical odds would suggest that such anomalies would occur at a significant rate. So much for the thought experiment. 

 

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

 

 

 

Courtesy of The Atlantic at:

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/

 

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