The franchise is already restricted to citizens except for weird subsets like SF schools, right? I think any model of franchise restriction must have negative feedback effects:

- should not allow franchise holders to arrogate state function to themselves in a snowball manner

- should not allow franchise holders to enhance franchise power

Not in a direct “outlaw this”sense but in a dynamic systems sense. So something like net tax payer is good. If you use it to vote yourself more state benefits you lose the franchise and others can then remove that benefit from you.

It will be hard to handle delayed reward situations (I pay now to get benefit later) so I think the problem is we just don’t have the correct device for this yet.

But the restricted franchise is something I think is very useful. The model of having free riders vote for more free riding is rapidly approaching its limit.