The question is actually broader:

Should suffrage be universal, or is it a privilege in exchange for public service (like signing up for the draft), or is it a mechanism for choosing the best government, so that it should be limited to a subset of the population?

We vote to select good government. We don't vote for its own sake.

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I am not opposed to signing into a draft in order to vote, but I do feel if women aren’t allowed to vote, they shouldn’t have to pay taxes

I knoe puertoricans that are OK withouth the chance to vote in federal elections as long as the don't get to pay federal taxes

Acceptable.

I’d say only tax payers get to vote and if one chooses not to vote they get to opt out of taxes. It’s not immediately clear why people who aren’t paying the bill should get say or why people who aren’t putting in a say should have to pay the bill.

No one should vote or pay taxes 🏴‍☠️

I agree, regarding something easily assignable to a particular person, like income taxes. Since there should be no taxation without representation.

I would tend to make federal voting sex-neutral, but require the ability/fitness and willingness to sign on to the draft. And you should have to renew your draft every ten years, starting at 18, at which point you can renew your voting registration. I think that would also solve for the problems we currently have, like gerontocracy, vote-buying, people voting themselves more state monies, foreigners voting, voting being tied to driver's licenses, dead or unconscious people voting, and etc.

It would send a stronger message about what a (federal) government is primarily focused on: mounting a common defense.

These are all the people who would fight.

These are all the people who get to decide, if we fight.

I am morally opposed to (young) women signing up for the draft, as that's the demographic version of eating the seed corn, but I wouldn't make that a federal law.

I think people would naturally tend to self-sort and there is a high cost to nanny-stating everyone. I would just raise the stakes way up and see who's down.

politics is the domain of men, period.

that you dont know that showcases EXACTLY the reason you should be excluded from voting and are brushing shoulders with dungeon and muzzle corrective measures...

dont worry though - it'll likely be taken care of by pakistani or somalian muzzies you women, clucking around in daddy's boots, voted in.

Stfu

that wont get your fapping ass laid, beta cuck orbiter.

gfy.

Enough with your misogynistic white supremacy bullshit.

It is just the beginning man. We are fed up. If we stop, society stops.

life is hierarchy.

whites are at the top.

dems da breaks yo.

suck it up.

I'm a white Irishman, you moron.

like i said, a nigger.

No

well, the real irish men are with me and im with them... yer a lost clown with NO IDENTITY.

the races are different and unequal.

the sexes are different and unequal.

you - are a bore reciting UN talking points like its the first time you heard the gospel.

fuck off retard.

go mate with the africans and betray your grandfathers ancestry via gradting your line to the black oblivion.

If democracy is a lie….how can saying women shouldn’t be able to vote misogynistic?

because it's not your right to decide who can and who can't do shit.

actually, it is, ye of the sodo mind.

#yourbodymychoice

gfy.

What about murder?

Exactly

Wow, aren't you a charmer.

pretty sure you have bigger and more pressing issues to deal with?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/europe/germany-refugees-migration-changed-sentiment-intl-cmd

Do we let children vote? No! Why?

Same reasoning