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Originally Posted by retmil46
Indeed. For quite some time after the country was founded, it was a requirement that you had to own property (ie, land, house, farm, business, etc) before you were allowed to vote. In essence, it meant you had to establish yourself in some sort of trade or occupation, and become a productive self-supporting tax-paying member of society before you had a say in how the country was governed and public funds were spent - IOW, you had to have your own "skin" in the game before you were allowed to play.
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I couldn't agree more, these days you have people with nothing, no skin in the game and they are voting.
Like my state there should be an amendment forcing a balanced budget, term limits need to be put in place, and voting should be restricted to landowners.