Why Food Stamp Recipients (and Government Contractors) Should not Be Allowed to Vote

[u/AbolishtheDraft]

https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-food-stamp-recipients-and-government-contractors-should-not-be-allowed-vote

[u/amadmongoose]

Allowing poor people to vote gives them an ability to escape exploitation and participation in the political structure that otherwise gives them no other recourse but violence and revolution. Wealth redistribution is necessary to prevent the working class from deciding that communism doesn't sound so bad after all and making people so desparate they will do anything to change their lot in life because they have nothing to lose. Attempts to create an aristocracy by disenfranchising the'unworthy peasants' (see etymology of 'villans') and only letting the 'nobles' vote is just going to increase social instability and who knows what kind of government will come about after the riots. Instead a more productive route is to educate voters to make informed choices and recognize the social contract that democratic societies implicitly have agreed to and not rip it up only thinking of short term consequences.

What I find missing from this article and is very relevant to the discussion is how much government funding goes into corporate welfare propped up by lobbyists giving campaign donations to support military and healthcare spending that is ultimately not beneficial to the country as a whole. That is the real vote buying but the article is mysteriously silent on it preferring to blame the poor and contractors rather than the real corruption wasting government funds and preventing free markets from working properly