Ted Nugent called for the suspension of the right to vote for “any American who is on welfare” as part of his proposal to reduce federal budget deficits outlined in his latest Washington Times column.

The National Rifle Association board member also called for “slaughtering the three sacred entitlement cows” of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and called for tax increases on “the nearly 50 percent of Americans who pay zero federal income taxes.” Nugent wrote that these policies should be instituted “before taxes are raised on the producers, which will further choke the economy.”

Nugent frequently attacks Americans who receive public assistance, whom he has termed “gluttonous, soulless pigs.”

From Nugent's column:

The three sacred entitlement cows in the room that no politician wants to poke are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. A blinding statement of the obvious is that we are never going to get our financial house in order until these sacred entitlement cows are not only poked, but slaughtered. Until the slaughter is over, everything else is just taxation window dressing.

In addition to slaughtering the three sacred entitlement cows that consume a vast majority of the federal budget (and I use the term budget generously), let's truly spread the pain around and raise taxes on everyone, including the nearly 50 percent of Americans who pay zero federal income taxes. Those Americans need to have some skin in the game, too. I recommend at least a 5 percent federal income tax bracket for them. The insane free ride needs to end. [...]

Let's also stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare. Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored. No American on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those Americans who are working and paying taxes to support them. That's insane. [...]

It shouldn't take a Motown guitar slayer to come up with these common-sense bargaining chips before taxes are raised on the producers, which will further choke the economy. How about it, GOP?