[Darnright]

>As a member of the military, for instance,<

Being in the military puts you in a whole different category, with different rules, than does your being a student at a college or university. In the latter case, in most instances you are still dependent on your parents for tuition and for much of your living expenses. If you are in the military, you are responsible for yourself.

[Darnright]

>If you are in the military, you are responsible for yourself.<

And I forgot to add, you are serving your country. BTW, thank you!

[jude24]

In the latter case, in most instances you are still dependent on your parents for tuition and for much of your living expenses. If you are in the military, you are responsible for yourself.

Not all college students are dependent on their parents for tuition or living expenses. But even so, their financial arrangements are none of the State's business.

Finances are not a predicate to the right to vote. If it were, housewives - who have zero income - would not be eligible to vote. Should my (for now, hypothetical) wife, who is entirely defendant on my income, be barred from the right to vote because she has chosen to stay at home?

Constitutionally, there are only two requirements for the right to vote: residence and age. We shouldn't change that.

[Let's Roll]

great tagline - LOLed

thanks

[rabscuttle385]

Being in the military puts you in a whole different category, with different rules, than does your being a student at a college or university. In the latter case, in most instances you are still dependent on your parents for tuition and for much of your living expenses. If you are in the military, you are responsible for yourself.

This is true. Both tax law and Federal financial aid regulations consider a full-time college student as a dependent of his or her parents and thus legally domiciled with his or her parents, unless they meet certain criteria to gain independent status. One of those criteria is veterans of the armed forces.