The author proposes limiting the franchise to net taxpayers or weighting ballots by taxes paid. He argues this would push voters to shrink government while creating countervailing incentives to pay taxes (to keep or amplify one’s vote), with a potential end-state where billionaires 'buy' political clout by willingly paying high taxes while minimizing everyone else’s.
— It reframes suffrage and campaign finance debates as incentive-design problems that could concentrate power among high taxpayers while disciplining state size.
John Carter
2025.04.29
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The article’s suggestion: 'only those who are net taxpayers being given the franchise' and, 'If you wanted to be really fancy, you could implement a tax-weighted vote.'
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