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People who voted leave probably still feel that way, but given the demographics of the vote many of them will have died, just as many people who were below voti

• yzrh 8y ago
  The "old people should not be able to vote" argument should die already. If anything, the weight of the vote of someone who's spent his entire life living in a place and paying taxes should be higher.
  • dijit 8y ago
    than the people who have to live through the consequences of said vote? What's to stop the older generation soaking up the entire wealth of their generation and the current one? I can very easily answer that: nothing. That's exactly why in the UK (state) pensions come in at more than twice the budget that's used for the NHS and why almost nobody under 30 can afford their own place.
  • gotocake 8y ago
    The "old people should not be able to vote" argument should die already. If anything, the weight of the vote of someone who's spent his entire life living in a place and paying taxes should be higher. I didn’t make that argument, in fact it’s not even orthogonal to what I did say. I suppose you could say that if I took any position, it was that children and dead people can’t vote, but that still feels like an observation, not an argument. All I did was state how demographics have shifted, that is all.