Daily Kos North Carolina Republicans have filed a bill that would penalize parents of college students who vote in the town where they go to college. Students would still be allowed to register to vote in their college town—but if they did, their parents would lose a tax deduction of up to $2,500. The same bill would also force people to have their car registered and be registered to vote in the same place, again targeting college students who are likely to register their cars in their hometowns but vote where they attend college.House Minority Leader Larry Hall said the bill "would raise taxes on middle-class families who are trying to put their children through college.”
“I refuse to believe the Republican leadership has become so desperate to limit voting for partisan gain that they would be willing to support tax increases to achieve that goal," said Hall, D-Durham. "It is the definition of arrogance to penalize parents with new taxes just because their children want to exercise their right to vote in the community they live in.”
Wow. So this is not your typical Republican voter suppression/voter intimidation scheme. This one comes with the added bonus of a tax increase on the parents of kids already struggling to send their kids to college. How low are these people going to go?
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