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

[Sue Hovey]

 I don't think the top is 100.  I got a 68 and lost the link before I checked my answers, but I think the only thing I might have missed was identifying the justices, who all look old, well not Alito but the other men, and poor Ruth Ginsberg looked ill.  I want her to "hang in there."  

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> On Dec 7, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Nick
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>> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>> 
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>> So, are you ready to allow these guys to elect the stand-ins for our actual overseers?
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>> http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-private-landowners-2013-10?op=1 
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>>> Sound like a plan, or what?
>>> 
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>> Are you ready to hire Jane Fonda as an election lobbyist to have a chat with her ex Ted Turner?
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>>>  
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>>> 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?
>>> 
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>> 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.
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>>> Statistical odds would suggest that such anomalies would occur at a significant rate. So much for the thought experiment.
>>> 
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>> 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.
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>> 
>> Ken
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