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Billionaire tech mogul Tom Perkins, who recently came under fire for his letter in the Wall Street Journal warning that the less wealthy might stage a Nazi Germany-style pogrom against the wealthy 1%, told a forum in San Francisco that the world could be saved by changing American voting laws: "If you pay $1 million in taxes, you get a million votes."
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)Then you have to serve in the Military for a Million Votes worth. Then he and his kids can get killed and blown up.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)The million dollars=a million votes was codified with citizens united.
Why do you think America has had more people denounce their American citizenship and leave the country? In the last few years this has happened more than the last 250 years combined.
If we poor people could afford to leave and renounce our citizenship, IMO, America would have a very low population.
This happened during the fascist takeover in Germany also.
Sadly, only the people with a disposable income can afford to do this.
The young may be able to also. If I were young and able to work, I would be gone.
Americans as a majority, are unable to change our political system.
Many are too uneducated to realize that they are slaves to a very unfair system.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Next time you hear a corporate elitist say that, please reply "and we shall remedy that."
dotymed
(5,610 posts)swilton
(5,069 posts)already running the system?