Thread: Justice Scalia of SCOTUS is Dead

They don't ask taxpayers if it's OK to give $500Bn+ in oil company subsidies, so why should they specifically have to ask for this?

Originally Posted by Humbert

I am not opposed to photo ID's for voting but the process should be facilitated instead of made difficult.
The federal or state governments should send mobile units everywhere providing photo ID's for people free of charge. This could easily be paid for by allowing taxpayers to tick a box on their federal income tax return which would designate funds for this purpose.

I agree that would stop all the accusations and bickering, get it done.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

They don't ask taxpayers if it's OK to give $500Bn+ in oil company subsidies, so why should they specifically have to ask for this?

They wouldn't have to but it would have to go thrue congress.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

They don't ask taxpayers if it's OK to give $500Bn+ in oil company subsidies, so why should they specifically have to ask for this?

They wouldn't have to but it would have to go thrue congress.

Yes I realise that.

I wanted to find out why Humbert felt it requires asking taxpayers.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I wanted to find out why Humbert felt it requires asking taxpayers.

I didn't say 'requires'. I said tick a box voluntarily allowing $1 from a tax refund to be used for this purpose. We have the same thing now that gives $1 from a tax refund to fund elections.

^ I always refuse to tick that box.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama urged states on Friday to protect voting rights, saying “it’s about making democracy as good as it can be.”
Obama told a group of Democratic governors that he will press the voting rights issue this year, a presidential election year and also his final year in office.


“The job of our democracy is to make it easier, not make it harder, for our citizens to be able to vote,” Obama told the elected officials, who are visiting Washington for the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association. “We need to be modernizing voting to reflect the way that people live today.”


He cited a new law in Illinois, his home state, where the governor is Republican, to expand early voting and allow people to both register and vote on Election Day.


Obama also commended the Democratic-led states of Oregon and California for being first to adopt automatic voter registration.
He encouraged the officials to review what these states have done.


“This is about more than just creating economic opportunity,” Obama said. “It is about preserving the rights and opportunities of generations of Americans that have fought so hard to secure and broaden our democracy. It’s about making democracy as good as it can be.”


During the portion of the meeting that was open to the news media, Obama also noted that two governors — John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Peter Shumlin of Vermont — are newlyweds.


“So something is in the water,” Obama joked, adding that the governors are doing what he and Vice President Joe Biden did, “which is marrying up.”


Obama to Democratic governors: Protect voting rights | The Seattle Times