Posted on 12/28/2021 7:56:28 AM PST by Bon of Babble
Since the start of the pandemic, many 16- and 17-year-old Americans have proven that they possess the social responsibility and political maturity to help elect better leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Democrats are desperate.
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The Hill is no better than Rolling Stone Magazine. Got it.
If it were up to me I might move the voting age up to 25 or 30. Once you've had a few years in the workforce to see how things really work (or don't). By then you've had a few years as an adult, on your own. How many 25 or 30 year olds have the same priorities they had at 16 or 17? Who do we want influencing decisions for the entire country?
Most of them there 16-17 yo’s this moron idiotic references can NOT even put a proper paragraph together let alone one with a thesis or topic sentence, but of course, let them vote!!!!!!!!
Hell frakin no!
Okay, since 16 and 17 year olds are responsible enough to vote, I think we should give them the right to:
- enlist in the armed forces
- drink alcohol
- purchase tobacco
- purchase and carry firearms of any type
Will the liberals agree to this?
AND be a land or property owner.
Dependent children should never have the right to vote. If one is 25 and still dependent of one’s parents - no vote. If one is 18 and fully independent, absolutely, vote.
They keep telling us the human brain doesn’t mature until 25 and kids aren’t mature enough to drink or drive a rental car before that age so why should they vote? I say take away the vote from anyone under 25 with a compromise for letting those in military service or veterans vote before that age. I regret my own votes from my early 20s (Clinton in ‘92).
Oh baloney.
It’s scary enough that we have massively ignorant college students voting!
In GA we don’t let them drive after midnight and the libs want to give them the most important right in the country?? Comical.
> If it were up to me I might move the voting age up to 25 or 30. <
The Founders set the minimum age for representatives at 25 and senators at 30. The Founders were wise people. And you just might be too!
It should go back to 21 and older. Maybe some other voting restrictions would be better the way they were 200 years ago.
No.
Not unless you want to LOWER the age of adulthood with all the concomitant rights and responsibilities including RKBA, alcohol, tobacco, etc...
Funny how they want to lower the age for some things, and raise it for others.
Okay. But, if they are old enough to vote, they are old enough to own an AR15.
Sit down with a 16 year old and try to discuss things like deficit spending, progressive versus regressive tax rates, the part monetary policy by the Fed has on the inflation rate. If you receive cogent answers, you’re one of the lucky ones. Indeed, I think there should be a test to see if you know enough to vote what you think, rather than who someone tells you to vote for.
I also think that, if you don’t pay Federal Income Taxes, you don’t get to vote in Federal elections. Same for State and Local taxes. After all, no skin in the game, why should you vote? Given that we can’t get voter ID passed, which should be a no-brainer, this idea would never stand a chance.
So all the militant teacher’s unions across the country can program their little drones to vote in Communism. Got it.
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