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I'd like to do the reverse of this. If you are paying property tax, you're vote counts 2-1.
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Have you really thought this through? My parents (in their late 60s) recently sold their house because they wanted to downsize in their retirement. They now rent an apartment and no longer pay property tax. You're proposing that they should be partially disenfranchised after they combined for over 80 years in the workforce, paying taxes and contributing to the Canadian economy all that time? Prior to their deaths, my grandparents also sold their homes and moved into assisted living retirement facilities where they didn't pay any property tax. Three of my four grandparents (all except my father's mother) served in WWII. How well do you think your proposal to make the votes of retired war veterans count less than the votes of other citizens would be received? Good lord that's one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard.
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If you are under 30, of sound mind and body, and you haven't contributed income tax or had a job for a minimum of 6 months, or continuous employment in the previous 6 months, you can't vote, because you simply aren't contributing to the system, and shouldn't have a say in how taxes are spent.
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Here's a completely far-fetched, totally unrealistic hypothetical scenario for you: let's imagine OPEC decides to increase its output substantially, which in turn leads to a world-wide crash to the price of oil and causes tens of thousands of hard-working Albertans to be unemployed for six months (or longer, in many cases). Do you really think those people should be disenfranchised?
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There is literally zero excuse as a Canadian citizen to be unemployed if you are able bodied.
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I'm sure all the people posting in the "Layoffs in the oil patch" thread appreciate your sympathy.