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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I thought it was pretty much determined that those were unAmerican. I can't recall why, though.
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I always thought that was a good idea. Does Lani agree with me? Why does that make me unamerican?
I am also for penalizing people if they don't vote. From economic perspective there is no reason to vote. The costs (all the time taken from your day and reading about the issues) is not covered by the return (the chance that your vote might actually mean something).
The only people that have not figured this out are the extremists and losers like me.
So we have to make it in people's economic interest to vote. Like they do in Australia. You don't vote you get a big fine.
That way, in order to win, politicians would have to turn to middle again instead of the base (like Bush was able to do in 2004).
