Should Welfare recipients be allowed to Vote?
Should they? They give nothing back to society and cost us millions of dollars a year and most abuse the system. And why should immigrants that have kids in the US be allowed to become citizens and then switch straight to welfare a year latter?
Should food stamp and welfare recipients be ineligible to vote while receiving benefits?
Absolutely! So long as they receive:Free housingFree food and clean waterFree child careFree access to the InternetA clothing allowanceFree medical careUnlimited educational opportunitiesYou’re basically stipulating that, as wards of the state, welfare recipients shouldn’t be allowed to vote. I’m fine with that, so long as they actually receive the benefit of being a ward of the state. If your intention is merely to harass, humiliate or shame welfare recipients by stripping them of their voting rights, then I submit that you are not a good or moral person, since you take pleasure in the degradation of others.I will say that, as a requirement for access to a generous welfare state, recipients should be obliged to go to school: eight hours a day, five days a week, fifty weeks a year. That should clear the welfare roles in five years.How do we pay for it? Eisenhower-level tax rates on people making more than ten million dollars a year.
Do most welfare recipients vote Republican?
Depends on race, frankly. Extremely poor whites are likely to vote Republican and be on some form of public assistance. Extremely poor non-whites are likely to vote Democratic and be on some form of public assistance. But your question was about “most.” Since “most” of America’s extremely poor people are white, I figure you’re probably making a good guess.Because of highly-publicized narratives about the Chicago “Welfare Queen,” for example, many people will doubt that whites constitute a majority of welfare recipients. Well, I’m sorry to break it to you, but it’s a fact. Even though Ronald Reagan never turned them into a meme, the impoverished populations of West Virginia, Kentucky, Idaho (to take three outstanding examples) are A) extremely white, and B) extremely likely to require government assistance. And even in states that don’t have very high structural or general poverty all of them have pockets of extreme poverty. And 35 of the 50 states are more than 70% white. That means white poverty. A lot of it. Everywhere.But I’m getting away from your question. Whether “most” people on welfare vote Republican. There’s another wrinkle to consider here. Namely, that the poorest people are also the least likely to vote. And I’m not talking by a little. I’m talking by a lot. A whole lot. Like, in the 2008 election, nearly 80% of >$150K voters showed up. Under $10K? Barely 40%. (Voter Turnout By Income, 2008 US Presidential Election). So most welfare recipients simply don’t vote. But, yes, you’re probably right that most of their votes are cast for Republicans, nationally.
Should people who are on welfare be allowed to vote?
YES!!! (this answer was deleted by mods for “not being nice”, can anyone help me? What is wrong with this answer over 3 years after it was made.You can not call a system democracy and at the same time restrict voting privileges. You either live in a free democratic society or you do not. There is no sort of democratic label here. This means you can not just randomly exclude people based on gender, color, religion, ethnicity, wealth, disability, inconvenience, stupidity, hair color or even incarceration. When the voting age has been agreed upon, there is only one criteria that can legally or morally be used to restrict voting. If a doctor has found the person to be so mentally handicapped, they get the status legally incapacitated.In the US there are states where a convicted criminal is banned from voting for life. How can that ever be compatible with having served your time or having been rehabilitated.A democratic nation has to do four things.1) Identify who and how many can vote and make them aware of the election. Preferable contacting the individual citizen with a voting certificate and instructions on where and how to cast your vote correctly.2) Allow them to cast their vote without pressure or hindrance and anonymously.3) Count the votes correctly and allow neutral supervisors to verify the all aspects of the voting process.4) Honor the voting result.Being on welfare is hopefully for a limited time period. Are you afraid the minority on welfare will somehow get a majority vote and change wealth distribution. That is not how a country functions, and is as likely a scenario as convicts being able to change criminal law. Well except maybe for USA that tends to throw so many in jail.Democracy is still a relatively new concept. This means that the constitutions that defines those democracies are also relatively new. But there is a huge difference on the ideas that governed peoples behavior a hundred years ago compared to today. The constitutions however has not changed. For my country Denmark this means the parliament could with the constitution in hand declare, that people on social benefits or in jail be excluded from voting privileges. It takes a bit of effort to legally safe guard the voting rights people already have, but it should be done just to be on the safe side.
Should benefits receivers/welfare recipients be banned from voting?
This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010 Put me in charge… Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50 pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job. Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job. Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place. In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the common good. Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem. If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices. And while you are on government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a government welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.
Do people on welfare typically vote Democrat or Republican?
Most people who are struggling in life could not POSSIBLY be less interested in politics. Word. EDIT: See all these people responding "Democrat?" I challenge each of you to give me one smidgen of evidence to back up that claim. You CAN'T. Because it's a lie. You are merely repeating what rush and your political pundits and hatemongers have been repeating over and over ad nauseum. What I say is the truth - people in the lowest economic categories are NOT political. They do not CARE or SUPPORT any party. They are on the "outside." By the by - any of these mindless drones care to give me a statistic on exactly WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS WHO ACTUALLY VOTE? Yeah. That's what I thought. ******************* OhMYGod -- "We don't need sources - we KNOW it" OK, everybody, you got that? Republicans don't need facts or sources for their claims because they just "know it." Dear God in Heaven Help us all. ******************* HEY, DUFUS. Are the CEOs of Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac, and EXXON voting Democrat? 'Cos they're taking the American taxpayer for BILLIONS. Know what you're doing? You're bending over to pick up pennies while dollars fly over your head. ************************** EDIT: Well, once again a Democrat has to hold the hand of a Republican and lead them to the path of FACTS. Just because YOU are too lazy to look it up doesn't mean that I am. Here you go, pal: "Surprisingly, the "value conscious" Red States -- you know, the folks preaching independence and self reliance -- are the biggest hogs at the federal trough." http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/20...
Why are Republican states the biggest welfare recipients?
The top 10 welfare states in the nation are Republican except for New Mexico. http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/sh... I'm so sick of these lazy Republicans sucking the government's teet! When they going to work for their money and pay their fair share in taxes?
Should Americans be allowed to vote who do not even know what the three branches of government are? Is that knowledge not necessary to vote effectively?
If you want to start imposing tests to determine who should or should not be permitted to vote you may come to regret it. In the first place, I’m not sure who gets to choose the judges who qualify and disqualify American citizens from exercising their rights to vote, but I’m pretty sure you will expect it to be someone who thinks a lot like you. That works until it doesn’t.When does it stop working? That’s the second issue. One day, in spite of all your efforts to disenfranchise people who you think are unworthy of democracy, people who do not think like you will eventually come into power. They will then have the ability to change all the rules governing voting, and to decide who should or should not get to vote.Then they will disenfranchise you and all of your friends. And why shouldn’t they? You started the precedent.