While I agree that maybe we should use since other metric for adulthood, I completely disagree about only being able to vote if you pay taxes. That has to be th

While I agree that maybe we should use since other metric for adulthood, I completely disagree about only being able to vote if you pay taxes. That has to be the most regressive idea I've ever seen on this site. So because you're so poor you don't pay taxes, you don't get to vote? What if you don't believe the laws are fair and that's why you're too broke to pay taxes? Oh well, your voice will never be heard. > With no skin in the game, so to speak, you have no incentive to consider both the collective good with your own good. This idea that how much money you make shows merit and how responsible are and that you have "skin in the game" is completely absurd. Everyone who lives in this country has skin in the game. How much money you make doesn't imply merit and worthyness to vote. A rich person paying capital gains taxes as their only taxes isn't a better person than someone working multiple minimum wage jobs. The results of elections can affect everyone. They can put us at war for example. They can affect the environment you live in and your quality of life. Also, how would this even be implemented. At the local level what if you pay sales tax? Do you show a receipt to vote? At the federal level what if you pay taxes but you're so poor you get it all back? Is it that you paid taxes to begin with that gives you the right vote? Do you have to net lose money to the government. Can I just donate a dollar to the federal government and call it a federal voting tax, then be able to vote? Anyway, I honestly want to know what problems you're solving by treating poor people like felons.