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badgenome said:
Mr Khan said:
Frankly a terrible, terrible idea. It sounds like the ludicrous plan that the Thai military junta was floating around to make some people's votes count for more (a lot more) than others, based on their value to society.

In theory it is sound, but then the question is, how to we determine value in a way that doesn't end up with terrible classism?

I imagine most people who are in favor of this are working under the assumption that their votes would count more, when in practice they would probably count less.

I would be in favor of a no representation without taxation reform, though. Hell, I'd gladly forfeit my right to cast a statistically meaningless vote in exchange for the right to keep all my money.

I think that would be a fantastic idea, where people would forfeit their right to vote if they get to keep all their money and not be taxed. I would also then like to add to that law if it was implemented that people who choose to not pay taxes then can not use any infrastructures that are funded by tax dollars since they forfeit paying taxes.

So no roads, no schools,no military, no hospitals since those are all funded by tax dollars. 

That would be a fair trade off, people who want to not pay taxes then can not use infrastructures funded through taxes of people who are willing to pay.