Toward a Tax Credit for Voting

Fixing our democracy the good ol' American way

Back in 2004, after the second questionable election of George W Bush as U.S. President, I did some research and learned that he had been originally selected in 2000 by only 27% of eligible voters. How can it be healthy in a democracy for a leader to be elected by one-quarter of its voters? Wouldn’t society be better off if the mandates of our leaders w…