Comments on: THOSE LUCKY POOR http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/those_lucky_poor/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:05:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rick DeMent http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/those_lucky_poor/comment-page-1/#comment-6018 Rick DeMent Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=3298#comment-6018 One also must look at the notion that if one of the primary and legitimate functions of government is the protection of property rights, then it would be difficult to argue that ones tax liability should not have some bearing on the amount of property one owns. This of course is a separate issue from the nothing of suffrage for non-property owners, but in an agrarian economy tying suffrage to property (meaning land) might have made sense. In a technological society the issue of what is property is far more elastic. --- One also must look at the notion that if one of the primary and legitimate functions of government is the protection of property rights, then it would be difficult to argue that ones tax liability should not have some bearing on the amount of property one owns.

This of course is a separate issue from the nothing of suffrage for non-property owners, but in an agrarian economy tying suffrage to property (meaning land) might have made sense. In a technological society the issue of what is property is far more elastic.

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