In light of the NYC council’s decision on Thursday to allow noncitizen residents the right to vote in local elections passed, National Review Institute senior fellow Andrew McCarthy claims that such measure would suffocate liberty by making governments larger and more powerful.
The former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that in an effort to solidify a permanent Democratic partisan majority, progressive Democrats push for noncitizen voting they reason that aliens will support them if they champion voting rights for them.
McCarthy argues that the government will become larger, more intrusive, and more redistributionist if noncitizens are permitted to vote and do so in support of Democrats because the Democrats are the party of government.
In this case, we’re talking about over 800.000 noncitizens that will get the right to vote.
According to him, that is how you kill a prosperous society since the bigger government becomes, the more it suffocates liberty and crowds out private investment, allocating the funds based on political favor rather than economic efficiency.
According to data, no New York City mayoral candidate has received 800,000 total votes since Rudy Giuliani in 1993 which means that even if a small fraction of the noncitizens votes, they will have significant electoral consequences in local elections.
NYC measure could also open the door for aliens to even run for local elected positions.
On top of everything, McCarthy points that if the voting rights of citizens are canceled out by noncitizens, many of them will opt to relocate to places where their democratic and constitutional rights were protected, hence eroding the tax base of the city at a time of a looming financial crisis.
In his conclusion, McCarthy stressed that voting must be limited to citizens only since it is what determines the destiny of the national community that shares benefits and burdens.
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