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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Why aren't there any garbagemen in the senate?
Landscapers?
Line cooks?
If the senate was 'for the people', why is being a landowner a requirement?
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Yes, that was a bizarre argument. The Senate is based off the British House of Lords. That title alone should give away that the upper chamber has never existed to represent the common man. That is what the House of
Commons was for.
And, as you note, separation from the common man is also why the $4000 land requirement exists. That was put in place to ensure that the Senate was filled only with the elite. The Bank of Canada's inflation calculator only goes back to 1914, but $4000 in 1914 is $83,200 today. Go back to 1867 and that is what? $150k+? The red chamber does not exist to represent any of us.