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New proposed voting method (by me). We take the previous year's tax return which is filed on April 15th of the election year and you get one share of the country for every dollar you paid in federal income taxes (actually paid, not owed). When the election comes around in November then you are allowed to vote the number of shares of the country that you own. So, if you paid zero in federal income taxes then you don't get to vote at all. If you paid $100 you get 100 votes, $1000 you get 1000 votes, and so on. Since we are basically voting a lot on how federal income tax dollars are spent then it makes sense to me that only those actually paying federal income taxes should vote. This may disqualify both low income Democrats and Republicans and, as the left claim, any of the rich not paying any federal income taxes, can't vote either. The only ones who get to vote are the ones who actually have skin in the game.