05-12-2016, 08:54 PM
Here are some qualifiers people can comment on also.
I wanted to keep the original proposal as clean as possible, but if you like the idea (or don't) how would you feel about these qualifiers.
1. The wage is payable to all who participate in our democracy, meaning voting is mandatory. If you don't vote in an election you forfeit your wage for 12 months. (Assume elections are held with the same frequency they are now.)
2. The wage is payable to all who have educated themselves. Payments commence at age 18 if the citizen has earned a high school diploma or a GED. If you have chosen ignorance as your path, you have not respected your duty and your opportunity as a citizen, and have thus chosen to forfeit your wage.
I wanted to keep the original proposal as clean as possible, but if you like the idea (or don't) how would you feel about these qualifiers.
1. The wage is payable to all who participate in our democracy, meaning voting is mandatory. If you don't vote in an election you forfeit your wage for 12 months. (Assume elections are held with the same frequency they are now.)
2. The wage is payable to all who have educated themselves. Payments commence at age 18 if the citizen has earned a high school diploma or a GED. If you have chosen ignorance as your path, you have not respected your duty and your opportunity as a citizen, and have thus chosen to forfeit your wage.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
