Should voters be paid to vote, or?
The Chicago Tribune article titled, Want to boost voter turnout? Pay people to cast their ballot, reported various schemes to get voters to vote.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to question, what Is a worse scenario for a Democratic Republic, people who don’t care to vote, or a uniformed voter?
King Solomon,
He who works in a half-hearted way, is brother to a wrecker. (Proverb, 18:9)
The one envisaged is slack and lazy in his business. He does not act as if he expected to be successful and his half-hearted unconvincing efforts are ruinous. He is a brother to a wrecker in a sense that although he does not ruin himself by wild insensate behavior which is devoid of self-interest and self-destructive, yet the end of his lethargy coincides with that of recklessness. (Proverbs Mc Kane)
What’s My Point?
If a person is a halfhearted voter, or uniformed who they are casting their vote for just to vote and perhaps be paid or some incentive, perhaps it Is better they don’t vote.
For example, there are numerous articles of written opinions and reasons as follows:
“An uniformed voter is worse than not voting,”
“Americans are generally more likely to believe that greater political participation would advantage the Democratic Party rather than the GOP.”
“Why Democracy Doesn’t Deliver “
My point is there is a much wiser incentive than to pay people to exercise their Right to Vote.
In My Opinion,
A wise incentive to get people to vote is to not allow political candidates to make promises they will make changes without a plan how they will implement and fund the changes they propose.
For example, if a candidate promises to support universal health care, how will their plan be funded?
If a candidate promises to improve the economy and jobs, what is his or her plan?
Pay for free college funding plan?
Green New Deal funding plan?
Illegal immigration, what do they propose to do and how will the costs be funded?
There is a current bill for reparations for descendants of slaves emerges as key issue in 2020 Democratic field. How will it be funded?
In other words, in a previous post, I explained that 50 percent of Americans only pay 3 percent of Federal Taxes and the other 50 percent pay 97 percent.
If you want to see voter participation increase, if politicians start telling facts and a plan instead of making vague promises that if elected, they will make changes, voters will participate if they are the ones who are going to have to be the ones who will pay the increased taxes.
That is unless, the politicians will say their proposals will be paid for by borrowing to add to the present 22 trillion-dollar federal deficit.
If Interested,
Read the articles in the Source links below and the previous post.
You Decide,
Will voters come out to vote if the incentive is that if they do not vote, they will be paying higher taxes.
Will any voter be uniformed if they are told the truth instead of a bunch of campaign promises that if they are elected, everything will be beautiful because “Change we can believe in” and the chant “Yes We Can”.
Will a halfhearted voter, or non-voter, or an uniformed voter, be a half-hearted wrecker to our Nation?
Is a half-hearted promise of change without a plan to fund a wise or foolish campaign promise?
Regards and good will blogging.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20190405/281818580201205
King Solomon, You Get the Leaders You Deserve
https://rudymartinka.com/2019/04/02/king-solomon-deserving-of-leaders/
“A uniformed voter is worse than not voting,”
“Americans are generally more likely to believe that greater political participation would advantage the Democratic Party rather than the GOP.”
https://www.prri.org/research/american-democracy-in-crisis-voters-midterms-trump-election-2018/
Why Democracy Doesn’t Deliver
Rudy u Martinka 
It would seem we have been wreckers not just brothers of said for some time. The electorate must become realistic that to change things in our country it is going to cost us. We cannot expect a “sacrifice that costs us nothing” to yield big results…at least not any longer.
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joseph elon lillie
Thanks for your comment and use of the word sacrifice. I read the newspaper everyday and the only time I seem to remember the use of the word in in the news relates to casualties of men in uniform or an act relating to heroic actions.
In the Old Testament, sacrifice was a common word taught to the majority to relate offerings to God. In the New Testament, sacrifice is what God did in return to message a path of salvation of his creations.
As for our Democratic Republic, the antonym of sacrifice seems to be the main theme of politicians.
If interested, check out the synonyms and antonyms of sacrifice and relate the meanings to what politicians promise vs. what they never mention when they make promises of the changes they envision.
Your comment and use of the reword sacrifice are spot on in my opinion. Wonder how many politicians would ever be elected in the USA if they used the word sacrifice vs. instant reward of something to someone who votes for them?
In other words, if you want to get elected, it will never happen if you use the word sacrifice in American politics. Or in another sense to tell the facts on what is the real solution to solve the problem of the National Deb that will only be resolved by sacrifice in the future.
Regards and good will blogging.
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Sacrifice is also an important word in the New Testament as the Covenant of relationship we have with Christ is based upon His sacrifice and we are told as Christians to expect that we will bear are own cross daily and as Paul the Apostle said “be living scrifices.” How the world would change if we would all approach it from this stand point.
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