Universal Suffrage Or Right to vote by every citizen is good or bad?

Raziman has given a wonderful answer. Suffrage is not a "contribution", its a "right" given to the citizens. The citizen is not legally obligated any duty towards this - it is an unconditional right given to that individual with no strings attached. That's what a democracy means. If its any other way, then it is not democracy, its slavery. A fundamental key to understand here is that the "government" is merely a social contract. If you exclude people from it, they will turn against you, depose you and form their own "government". Corporates are profit-making bodies. They are not obligated to any social responsibility.  On the other hand, a government is for the people and by the people.

Raziman you had presented a valid argument but i am not totally agree with you. Allow me to put some more points here. I am not advocating the restriction over voting rights based on gender or race. What I am saying is that rights should be given to the person who understands the meaning of rights. Do you agree that all the rights come’s with some fundamental duties? If a person does not understand this then we should not give him/her the right to decide the faith of country. Some time you have to sacrifice a little share of freedom for the good of country. Let me put a very simple analogy for this. We have a driving license system because we are worried about our safety at roads because if a person doesn’t know how to drive but allowed to drive then imagine what will be the scene i.e. he will be dangerous for self and others.             As for the safety of road transport we have implemented the driving license system so don’t you think there should be a system to identify the person who is eligible to vote? It will be good for the country safety and if we choose deserving person as our policy makers we will be more prosperous altogether including the poor and rich indiscriminately.   Now coming to your next point by literate here I mean politically literate. There should be a test which will evaluate the awareness of the person and if successful then that person will be allowed to vote. Giving right to a person who does not understand the value of vote is just like sending a kid for shopping without a shopping list as a result kid will end up buying chocolates and other childish stuff thinking that everyone will be needing chocolates like him. Another more real example is appointing a person as IT minister or rail minister who does not even understand the ‘T’ of Technology. This is only possible because we are practicing the “Universal Suffrage”. By shareholder policy I don’t mean that votes should be weighed against the tax amount paid by them. It can be a criteria for identifying the person for the above mentioned test along with the other criteria.

Universal Suffrage will be good only if the option of "No Vote" or rejecting everyone on the list is provided. Also if the total number of "No Vote" is higher than all the other options, then each of the candidates in the list should be disqualified from contesting any election for the next term as voters have rejected them as their representative. Rather all those candidates who get less votes than the option "No Vote" should be disqualified for contesting in next term. Such a electoral reform if implemented and publicised extensively will help improve the quality of leadership.

Universal suffrage is a bad idea in a democracy in which people are taxed. Essentially the government CANNOT do anything, they cannot write laws, enforce them, run courts, have a military etc without money. That money comes MOSTLY from tax revenue (some comes from user fees for services). As such, it only makes sense that those who actually pay taxes either equal to or above the amount of services in whicht hey consume should be able to vote. Otherwise, you will simply end up with people who get more in services than they pay in taxes voting to get more stuff at the expense of other people who pay more in taxes. This is a HUGE problem in countries with welfare states, where people who pay very little in taxes vote for wealth transfer from those who pay alot in taxes to those who don't. This is widescale theft and if it goes on long enough will destroy a country and it's culture. This is precisely why in the when the US government was first formed a person needed to own a small piece of land or have X amount of dollars to vote. In short , the voters need to have some reasonable skin in the game to vote. This is just ONE reason Universal suffrage is a bad idea, there are many others.