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Are 16-year-olds ready to vote? We asked teenagers
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Paying taxes isn't the metric for production or societal contribution.
In my opinion, only people who hold a full-time job where they actually make, extract, or transport things should be allowed to vote. Factory and retail workers yes, corporate chair-warmers and middle managers no. Production is the basis of the economy and votes should be based on production.
But many of those people earn so little that they don't pay taxes or pay very little taxes. A tax threshold for voting would take us back to the days of the July Monarchy where the rich and powerful (the middle class and up) controlled and drove politics.