Tea Party Nation President Says It 'Makes A Lot Of Sense' To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners
Two weeks ago, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips hosted the program and discussed changes that he felt should be made to voting rights in the United States. He explained that the founders of the country originally put "certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote." He continued, "One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a [a href="http://teapartynationalism.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=135:tea-party-leaders-attack-constitution&Itemid=104"]vested interest in the community[/a] than non-property owners": [blockquote]PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.[/p][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][/blockquote]You know, I just can't see why people insist the Tea Party is full of kooks and cranks who have terrible ideas that favor the rich and wealthy. Oh, wait...
