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Originally Posted by pgsieve
Curious why non-property owners are allowed to vote in this?
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Because do you do it by 1 vote per property owner, 1 vote per property, 1 vote per home, 1 vote per dollar spent? What's the fair way to break it down.
If it's by property owner then you're stacking the deck unfairly against people who could afford their property on their own. Why should the couple next to me get two votes because they share the title and I only get one when we own the same size of house? If it's by property then we are valuing all properties the same which doesn't seem any different than just giving every person a vote. Why is a property worth more than a person? Haven't we gotten past this kind of democracy?
If it's just by homes it ignores the majority of the property tax base, which doesn't seem fair if we're being exclusionary based on risk.
If it's by dollar value it means your say is only worth as much as you pay, which is kind of what we don't like to see in democracies, isn't it? But then it definitely puts a huge proportion of votes in the hands of people who don't live in the city so where's the benefit in that?