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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2013 12:38 PM, Robert Dickow
wrote:<br>
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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? </span></p>
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So, are you ready to allow these guys to elect the stand-ins for our
actual overseers?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-private-landowners-2013-10?op=1">http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-private-landowners-2013-10?op=1</a>
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like a plan, or what?</span></p>
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Are you ready to hire Jane Fonda as an election lobbyist to have a
chat with her ex Ted Turner?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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?</span></p>
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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.<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Statistical
odds would suggest that such anomalies would occur at a
significant rate. So much for the thought experiment. </span></p>
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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.<br>
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Ken<br>
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