Let's fine people who don't vote
In the wee small hours of the morning after Election Day last November, I had a thought. ~200 million Americans didn't vote today. If 75% were eligible voters and were fined $100 each, the US government could've made $15 billion. — Matt Birt (@BirtMC) November 9, 2016 Furthermore, Election Day comes every year, not every four, and we could keep doing it until the US makes bank or people learn their lesson. — Matt Birt (@BirtMC) November 9, 2016 On paper it sounds simple enough. Officials would check the voter log against the social security database, and anyone that didn't sign their name would receive an orange envelope in the mail with a bill. But it's never that black-and-white when it comes to government matters. First and foremost, my math is skewed. It's far too simplistic, and frankly, incorrect. It would actually take over 1,000 years to close that gap without the debt growing, if the voter turnout rate stayed consistent the wh...