Should voting be encouraged?

[a completely inoffensive name]

In Starship Troopers, you did national service or worked in one of the government registered departments which granted you citizenship. Also, their justification for taxing civillians are that civillians need to be protected, they still want benefits, etc, so the taxes paid for those.

But they dont get to determine how much protection they want or how many benefits they get because they have no representation. So again, it's a form of tyranny since the government could simply up the taxes and claim its for the protection they want even if the public is satisfied with the protection they have.

It actually now that I think about it, somewhat similar to the situation the english colonies had before they rebelled. They payed taxes so they could be protected from the evil indians and french but the fact that they still had no say in the process created a lot of civil rights violations.