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

[Nicholas Gier]

I got a 67.  I mixed up the two women on the Court and I forgot that
"sacred honor" was in the D. of Independence.  There must have been some
other mistakes because I assumed that the total was 100?  Perhaps not.

Nick


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

>
> On 12/7/2013 12:38 PM, Robert Dickow wrote:
>
>  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?
>
>
> So, are you ready to allow these guys to elect the stand-ins for our
> actual overseers?
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-private-landowners-2013-10?op=1
>
>  Sound like a plan, or what?
>
>
> Are you ready to hire Jane Fonda as an election lobbyist to have a chat
> with her ex Ted Turner?
>
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> Citizenship is one thing.  Education levels are another.  Suppose the
> income tax rates are bumped up a notch or two, with a concomitant offer
> that if you pass a set of comprehensive high school subject examinations,
> your taxes will be reduced on some sliding scale -- the more exams passed,
> the more your taxes go down.
>
>
>  Statistical odds would suggest that such anomalies would occur at a
> significant rate. So much for the thought experiment.
>
>
> I expect that the rate of homework completion and educational
> accomplishment would increase noticeably after attaching a reduced tax bill
> to an increased educational accomplishment level.
>
>
> Ken
>
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