Showing posts with label Voting Rights Act of 1965. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voting Rights Act of 1965. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2013

2013 in Review: Forget Voter ID Law; we need a voter IQ law

(From March 2013, this was also a Huffington Post blog)
Society will be safer when people can carry guns into churches.

Our standard of living will increase once we get rid of unions and bring business into our states.

We can create a much more educated society if we pay teachers based on standardized test scores and then let them spend all of their time teaching to the test.

We can get a much better crop of teachers if we do nothing but attack them and tell their students and their students’ parents just how worthless the teachers are.

If we eliminate taxes for businesses, they will automatically start hiring people.

All of those propositions wither and fade away when confronted with reason, but the people who keep pushing this snake oil keep returning to office, year after year, election after election.

It’s not Voter ID that this country needs- it’s Voter IQ.