People who pay taxes have the right to participate in democracy - DutchNews.nl

A record 13.4 million people are eligible to vote in this week’s Dutch general election, but more than a million are effectively disenfranchised, writes Robin Pascoe. Political leaders have had plenty to say during the campaign about migrants of all types: refugees, low skilled “migrant workers”, international students and highly skilled “knowledge migrants”. Many of them are Dutch News readers. Parties across the spectrum have plans to reduce the number of people coming to the Netherlands as refugees, to work...