He’s not wrong at that part, just projecting in the wrong direction.
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He’s whitless, that’s for sure. Has ignorance on lock.
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TPUSA isn’t the fringes. It’s mainstream GOP these days.
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I can only agree. Let the woman of the house go to vote, and leave Jason taking care of the children. How does it sound?
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Single males, or otherwise not the head of a “traditional” household need not apply to vote either.
Somehow I didn’t have this dirtbag tagged. I missed him here:
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No, wait, you may have something there. How about whoever holds the title/deed? Most properties are mortgaged, so that means the bank gets the vote, one for each property they hold the primary mortgage on. Same with people who own apartment buildings: they get the vote, one for each rented out apartment to an eligible head-of-household. Live in an apartment, RV, boat, or on property you don’t own free and clear, no vote for you. Own a bank with a bunch of mortgages, a few slums, or a really big condominium complex and you rightfully determine who rules the county, maybe the state, or for the larger lending institutions, the country.
What could possibly be the downside?
/s
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Ummm…
(Isn’t this just how it already is - with ‘bank’ representing all the business interests that buy politicians and always have?)
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This is what makes me wonder how far Nikki Haley’s run will go. There’s no way that party full of misogynists who claim to believe in “family values” would truly support a woman as POTUS. Since many GOP candidates for that post have used campaigns for reasons other than winning that office, I guess time will tell. 
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It would work even better than you think. Who else owns property, besides the banks and landlords? People who’ve paid off their mortgages, which is to say older people, who probably skew conservative and watch “acceptable” TV channels such as Fox News. Also, there’s likely to be a strong racial divide in property ownership. So the non-bank, non-landlord voting population would still be dominated by older white men, just as God and the founders intended.
Now, you might have to impose a minimum property value, to stop people buying a tiny plot of land and putting up a shed on it, then claiming to be “owners” just so they can get a vote. That’s the kind of sneaky trick liberals would pull in their ceaseless fight to wrest power from the hands of those who properly deserve it. And we probably shouldn’t discriminate against commercial real estate landlords, so there’d need to be some allowance made for office buildings or industrial plant, even though no one lives there. And maybe stocks and shares should count as virtual property.
Still, with a few tweaks, I think your system will work very well indeed.
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I had a conservative boss who held a similar view, but his was one vote per tax-dollar paid in that year, like shares in a company.
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Hmm…I assume that old boss wouldn’t want sales tax dollars to count because the poor would get lots of votes. Then again he probably would want property tax dollars to count, so the damned billionaires get tons of votes in multiple states.
How about no?
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Of course he disregards the idea that a woman can have any value outside of a relationship with a man and completely ignores the existence of same sex couples.
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Hm. Would those patriarchal polygamys get one vote for each wife? And would they have to be of at least voting age to count?
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By 1856 the requirement to own property was abolished. Universal sufferage for woman was introduced in 1920.
So it was one vote per white man. Immediately prior to women being granted the righ to vote.
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Black men got the right to vote before any woman did in the US - 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870. It took 50 years longer for women to get the right to the franchise.
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I considered the idea, and thought that inevitably it would lead to wider wealth inequality; while it would encourage the wealthy to pay their share of taxes, they would inevitably use that influence to redirect tax dollars to corporate welfare, rather then infrastructure and services.
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I stand corrected on that detail.
Your conservative boss was okay with paying taxes?
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