Geopolitics

Should parents get one extra vote per child?

Just because the kids aren’t old
enough to vote, their interests should still be accounted for right?

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Absolutely not.  Their interests are accounted for with their parents votes, who made a choice to bear the responsibility of raising a child.

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Isn’t that vote diluted with kids though? 

Kids have a stake in the future too right?

So, we have a school bond in a neighborhood to pass and 3 households without children, already paying a share of public education they do not see benefit from, now has their 3 households of two completely negated and beaten by a single household of two parents and five kids?  No.

What’s fair is the premise of equal representation under the law, and a voter age of 18

Also anecdotally, very few people without children (young couples, retired, those of us who never had them) are looking at levying more tax mills for a new grade school as a hell yeah because of property value.  I know this because my wife was voted into local politics in the city and state.

Yeah I think that would be fair though right? 

Schools are an amenity and add property value in a big way. It’s probably one of the top three homebuying parameters people search by.