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#1 Jan 25 2010 at 10:23 AM Rating: Good
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Effectively a scheme to counter the leverage created by population inequities (ex. baby boomers) and give a pseudo-voice to those under the age of enfranchisement. A neat political manipulation tool, at any rate.
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#2 Jan 25 2010 at 10:44 AM Rating: Good
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Lol, ballot-box stuffing by procreation. Omg, politicians would really be looking to marry the women with the wide hips and well-endowed family tree.

I think it's a totally ludicrous idea.
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#3 Jan 25 2010 at 10:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, I can see that passing here, with our rampant fear of immigrants and their large families. Smiley: oyvey

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#4 Jan 25 2010 at 10:55 AM Rating: Good
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Yeah, I can see that passing here, with our rampant fear of immigrants and their large families.


You don't get it democratically passed, you enact it via edict, and then let them vote on it's legitimacy. C'mon, basic Strategery. Just like the abolition of slavery and the accompanying enfranchisement.
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#5 Jan 25 2010 at 11:58 AM Rating: Good
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I like the 'inter-generation fairness' argument. Just because someone has children, doesn't mean that they'll use those votes for the kids.

Sure it may be unfair, but the baby-boomers will die soon, so it's okay.
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#6 Jan 25 2010 at 12:01 PM Rating: Good
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Either Mr. Twyford has a small group of supporters, who jsut happen to procreate like rabbits or he has far too much trust in people to vote in good faith as to what their children actually chose. Or both.
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#7 Jan 25 2010 at 12:23 PM Rating: Good
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Sure it may be unfair, but the baby-boomers will die soon, so it's okay.


Not until they take all your pension funding.
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#8 Jan 25 2010 at 1:05 PM Rating: Good
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Sure it may be unfair, but the baby-boomers will die soon, so it's okay.


Not until they take all your pension funding.


And we'll take all their inheritance when they die.
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