but they can't drink... go figure
Posted on 09/06/2014 10:28:46 PM PDT by chessplayer
By and large, 18-year-olds know nothing and shouldn’t be voting.
If you don’t believe me, I suggest you actually go to a college campus and talk to some students.
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1) Politicians depend on stupid people voting.
2) Can't send an 18 year old off to fight in a war and then tell them they are too stupid to vote.
3) No one will ask for an ID, so even if they raised the age to 21, teenagers would still be voting.
but they can't drink... go figure
Would hate to tell an 18 year old he can’t vote but he’s old to enough to die fighting Islamic scum.
You’d have to amend the US Constitution.
If they’re too stupid to drink beer responsibly, they’re certainly too stupid to vote.
They’re old enough to vote and die for their country but can’t buy booze or smokes. Hmmmmm. Something is wrong here. Sounds like a DemocRAT thing.
If you’re 18, you should be able to vote, drink or die for your country. Sadly, that comes with dying in a drunk driving crash or a drunken jump from a balcony into a motel pool during spring break.
Freedom has a price. Sometimes it’s worth it, sometimes it isn’t.
The 18 year old vote came out of the 60s, so did the lowering of the drinking age, the laws were changed in the early 70s.
Ah, the answer there is 18 yo olds in military can vote.
The only 18 year olds who should be allowed to are those in the military or those who already pay income/property tax (although I don’t think anyone who doesn’t pay income/property tax should be allowed to vote).
Yes, the 24th Amendment needs to have the words, “or other tax” repealed. The way the amendment is interpreted right now, freeloaders can freely vote for politicians who will just give them money; the cancellation or postponement of student loan debts is an example of freeloaders running wild.
Keeping freeloaders from voting was an intention of the Founders. Representation proportional to what someone pays in income/property taxes would be the best scenario under our current system. Abolishing the IRS and income taxation would be even better, as using property taxes as the determiner of the proportion of representation would put some power back into local government and take said power away from the Feds.
I don’t think a poll tax is really the best decision, but it was better than allowing the freeloaders to vote unhindered.
Raise the voting age!
Establish term limits!
Time for an Article V convention!
The real problem with the so-called constitutional republic is the following imo. With all due respect to mom and pop, and as mentioned in related threads, parents are not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers. The consequence of widespread voter ignorance of the federal government's limited powers is that voters do not understand that most federal laws and federal taxes are probably unconstitutional.
In fact, military issues aside, if voters understood that one of the very few government services that the states have actually delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, is the specific power to make policy for is the US Mail Service, such power evidenced by the Constitution's Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I, then consider the following.
Once constitutionally indefensible federal laws, likewise indefensible federal taxes, and also the services provided by those indefensible taxes are eliminated, then crook lawmakers would probably not only lose interest in getting elected to DC, but voters would likely also lose interest in what is going on in DC.
Jerry Springer would be pissed.
Adults aren’t smart enough to vote either.
I mean really, generally speaking, people aren’t smart at all.
If that is the new standard, judging by the results, the voting age should be raised to around 50.
Most voters today don't have the smarts of 7-year-olds.
Only men who are married with children, and living with the mother of their children, should be allowed to vote.
If women couldn’t vote, IIRC, no Democrat would have been elected President in the last 90 years or so.
As a millennial, I say raise it to 30.
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