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Originally Posted by arock10
you do know its by voter and not by who owns the voter's house?
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You do know you can't register to vote in a district if by using someone else's address without their consent.... and you can't be a resident without having a place to live. The point the article makes is that there are people who are wealthy enough to make entire cities "private property"... the fact is there are people who could make entire states private property.... and most State Constitutions are not equipped to handle it.
As another mind-fuck, ask yourself what would happen if Bill Gates decided to go gamble at a Casino...? Let's say he gambled a few billion dollars and won... he would keep the money. Now let's assume he gambled a few billion dollars and lost. Nothing prevents him from buying the casino itself to recoup that loss. Now apply the same reasoning to the stock market and industry regulations. Make bets and then buy out the other side of any that don't perform well enough. Think that sounds ridiculous? It's already being done by Berkshire Hathaway, BP and many others.
The legal framework established to manage our democracy and our economy presupposed that no one "person" would have enough wealth to do these sorts of things. That framework is broken and the "people" (which now includes corporations) who benefit from it being broken are the same people dictating how it will evolve in the future.
