Rich Should Get More Votes, Says Billionaire Tom Perkins

Tom Perkins calls for the rich to be given more votes

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Outspoken magnate Tom Perkins who likened attacks on the very rich to anti-Semitism, courts further controversy as he calls for the right to vote to be linked to how much tax people pay

Tom Perkins, the Silicon Valley billionaire, has risked further controversy by saying the rich should be given more votes than the less well off.

An unrepentant Mr Perkins also said those who paid no taxes whatsoever should be disfranchised.

The venture capitalist, enlisted both Thomas Jefferson and Baroness Thatcher in his call for a radical change to the voting system.

Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, he appeared to revel in the notoriety his previous remarks as he spoke to a sell-out audience.

“Thomas Jefferson, at the beginning of this country thought to vote you had to be a landowner,” he said. » | David Millward, US Correspondent | Saturday, February 15, 2014