Pay to Vote

You're joking, right?

   The rich should get more votes because they pay more taxes, according to venture capitalist billionaire Tom Perkins.
   Corollary to that is that if you pay no taxes, you don't get to vote. Carry it forward, and you get to deal with many of the very rich who pay no taxes, using loopholes in the code to avoid payments. Further, many pensioners don't have incomes high enough on which taxes may be due. And many low-income workers also don't meet an income threshold that would call for taxes. Therefore, all of these lose their right to vote.
   Whatever happened to one person, one vote?
   It's also true that many senior executives, such as Warren Buffet, pay at a lower rate than their secretaries. Does that mean the lower-paid secretary gets more votes than the boss?
   Poll taxes, as a means to prevent poor people from voting, were declared illegal a long time ago.
   So either Mr. Perkins was joking, or he's a complete ...