That’s what this Tea Party bozo believes:
Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips said denying the right to vote to those who do not own property “makes a lot of sense” during a weekly radio program.
“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote,” Phillips said. “It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote.”
“Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today,” he continued. “But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community.”
Well, since Banks are people too (cf. Citizens United)I guess that would give banks a vote for every home they assume ownership through foreclosure, or at least it would give fractional votes to all those investors who owned a slice of those mortgages that were sold by the banks and mortgage companies as collateralized debt obligations. Sounds like the RIGHT idea to me.
That Tea Party sure has some great thinkers, don’t it?
