JD Vance calls for taking away voting power from "people who don't have kids": "Doesn't this mean that non-

[riversedge]

Maybe Vance means women without children only get 3/5 th of a vote??
I did turn up the volumn- Vance is actually saying this.

JD Vance calls for taking away voting power from “people who don’t have kids”: “Doesn't this mean that non-parents don't have as much of a voice as parents? Yes. Absolutely”

Link to tweet

[debm55]

1. Does that mean I don't have to pay my school tax?

[rurallib]

7. BINGO!

[magicarpet]

8. Federal taxes, state taxes, or municipal/property taxes.,...

.... if you have no children you get a free ride. No civil rights - not encumbered by any tax burdens.

A better deal than the 1% and the ultra rich.

[Salvador Dolly]

34. Very likely, no one will pay school taxes ...

... in the notional Republican utopia.

Because public schools are basically gay, don't you know.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. And so I won't have a vote (I have no kids) for raising my taxes, spending my taxes, etc., etc., etc. NO.

Definitely NO. And you all of a sudden don't get the right to take my voting privileges away.

I know tRUMP wants to dump you, but NO. He's stuck w/ you, who is proving every day how unfit he is for upper office in this Country.

[keithbvadu2]

3. That includes much of our military. You really thought this out, eh?

[lame54]

4. Non parents pay more in taxes...

Generally

[Brenda]

18. Absolutely.

I've always paid more for benefits in my health insurance that I didn't need. Didn't complain, because it's a Group Policy.

I've always paid my taxes that went to local schools that I didn't use. Didn't complain, because I support the community.

I've always paid my federal taxes that do not give me credits for breeding. Didn't complain because well, honestly that one irritates me.

I'm sick of the takers blaming the non-takers for their problems and wanting to subvert democracy for their own fucking reasons.

If you want to deny me my constitutionally guaranteed right as one American, one vote because I am not a parent well, expect a tsunami of blowback JD Punk.

[Sky Jewels]

5. Too bad for you, Lindsey Graham!

[riversedge]

6. Someone gonna tell @LindseyGrahamSC and @SenatorTimScott ?

Or AOC? Are there other childless Reps or Senators?

Someone gonna tell @LindseyGrahamSC
and @SenatorTimScott?

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[Mossfern]

9. I have 4 kids

How many votes do I get?

[FakeNoose]

17. On the same note, why doesn't a pregnant woman get 2 votes?

[H2O Man]

10. Recommended.

I say we must take away voting rights of people who didn't have parents.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. That's a slippery slope

Next you'll be taking away voting rights of couches and dogs that get shot and dogs that get eaten and even people with brain worms. It might even lead to Jerk Dunderhead Vance losing voting rights.

[ExciteBike66]

11. Lets call his bluff

The people with young kids tend to be younger themselves. I would LOVE it if Republicans gave less power to their core, elderly constituency and more to the more liberal young families!

[wnylib]

12. Well, there goes the MAGA incel vote.

[TBF]

13. Are we to take this literally - I gave birth to 2 children. Does my husband get to vote?

He's a great dad, but he didn't give birth to them.

Yale is probably wondering how on earth this one slipped through and was accepted into their law school ...

[Oneironaut]

14. JD is going to torpedo Trumps campaign. Lol

[Jim__]

15. One of the basic tenets of the American revolution: No taxation without representation.

Vance is campaigning against the basic tenets of American democracy.

[femmedem]

16. His idea was to give parents the right to cast additional votes on behalf of their children.

He wasn't saying to take away nonparents' right to vote, but he was certainly saying that the votes of parents should be weighted more heavily.

From WaPo: "A year before JD Vance was elected to the Senate, he advocated for a novel way to enhance the political strength of families — by giving parents the ability to cast tens of millions of additional votes on behalf of their children."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/24/jd-vance-parents-kids-voting/

Incredibly, the idea still has legs. From the same article:

"The idea Vance floated was fleshed out this month in a law review article titled “Give Parents the Vote” by Northwestern University law professor Joshua Kleinfeld and Harvard law professor Stephen Sachs. Giving parents the chance to vote on behalf of their children would “profoundly alter the incentives of American parties and politicians,” they wrote.

Vance has not reviewed the article, according to his campaign, and he has not publicly gone into the level of detail that the authors do.

There are more than 70 million children in the United States, according to the Census Bureau, and they account for nearly a quarter of the population. They have major stakes in climate change, the size of the federal government’s debt and long-term policies, Kleinfeld and Sachs wrote. They wrote that allowing parents to vote for children has to be taken seriously even if it sounds like a “silly provocation” at first."

[GenThePerservering]

19. The quiver-full people will like this

but I don't see it going anywhere.

[Coventina]

20. Does my dead child count?

[duncang]

21. So how about this.

I’m a grandpa does that mean I get to claim my kids and grandkids to get extra votes?

Edit: Do I also get extra votes for my kind of grandkids? My daughter donated eggs to a friend. Does that take votes away votes from their grandparents? How about nieces and nephews I consider them family. So I’m really invested in the future.

[milestogo]

22. How about we take away voting power from people who are stupid and immoral first?

That means you, JD.

[Attilatheblond]

23. How does that work for parents of grown offspring? Is there a 'child' cut off age?

JD doesn't want anyone over, oh, say 46 to have a vote?

[Abolishinist]

24. Nothing compicated at all with implementing this.

A 16 year old has a child out of wedlock, who gets the vote of this child? Does the mother now have the right to vote, and twice? Or does this vote remain with her parents?

If a family gets an extra vote for their one child, is it split between them, 1/2 vote each? Or does each parent get an extra vote?

Can an undecided voter cast one vote for candidate #1 and one vote for candidate #2?

So many more questions. I really think VD JD should be encouraged to put forth his new election proposal!

[JustAnotherGen]

25. Great

My property taxes should be reduced (since I won't be able to vote in school board and local elections) as well as my State and Federal Taxes.

[Mr.WeRP]

26. In Obama's words.."Please, proceed..." JD. Lol

[Klarkashton]

27. He is suggesting family voting where

The whole family gets to vote under the supervision of the parent. 10 kids? 12 votes.
JFC this is madness.

[skypilot]

28. Well, so much for all the "Unity"...

...talking points from the Republicans. Now, on top of everything else, this asshole is pitting parents against non-parents.

[Maeve]

29. Engage brain before operating mouth, JD

And everything I see "JD" I think "Juvenile Delinquent"

[Cartoonist]

30. I'm reminded of something Ann Coulter said.

She said only people whose grandparents were born here should be allowed to vote. That means none of the Trump family could vote.
My idiot racist brother sent me that, even though my paternal grandparents came from Europe.

[Retrograde]

31. There's an Ogden Nash poem that comes to mind

every time I hear about JD Whatshisname. In the 1930s there was a series of detective novels featuring a sleuth named Philo Vance: they were not universally popular, and Nash had a short poem about it: "Philo Vance/Needs a kick in the pance".

[Timeflyer]

32. His first dig against "childless cat ladies" was misogynistic code for women who are not under the authority

of a male. Those darn uppity women...

[TomSlick]

35. I had to listen to the video several times to convince myself he really said that.

The stupid is strong with this one.