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Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’ | naked capitalism

naked capitalism·Yves Smith·26 days ago
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Yves here. Hoo boy. Conservative creepy crawlies like Lee Zeldin, who submitted fake signatures when trying to get ballot access for a New York gubernatorial election, are touting new idea of electoral purity by denying the wrong sort of adult from voting. Details are murky, which likely means messaging has not been perfected. But the basic idea is that only the propertied and/or taxpaying should vote. That conveniently ignore that all adults are taxpayers via sales and gas taxes, as well as property taxes as a landlord expense recouped in rent payments. But the vanguard at the Heartland Institute can’t be bothered by facts that conflict with their tidy discriminatory world view. By Rei Takver, a freelance climate researcher for DeSmog whose work on climate disinformation and environmental justice has also appeared in The ENDS Report and Now Then Magazine.…

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