Got to show some responsibility in order to get voting rights in this country.
At one time, this was the property owners.
These kids say that they "pay taxes". How many of them get their taxes back in the Spring as a refund (taxes paid for a part time job that earns then under $12k a year)? Oh sure they don't get the Social Security dollars back but as the program has been explained, that is not a tax (although candidate Jerry Springer wanted to exempt low income people from paying in and soak the rich for extra SS dollars).
Tell the parents that they won't be able to deduct their voting children as "dependents" anymore either. After all, if they are mature enough to vote, they are mature enough to provide for themselves.
Not that I know of.
Got to show some responsibility in order to get voting rights in this country.
Technically, no. You could be a worthless, shiftless bum at age 18, with no job and no prospects, and you still have the right to vote. Don't mean it's right, mind you, but it's true.
Tell the parents that they won't be able to deduct their voting children as "dependents" anymore either. After all, if they are mature enough to vote, they are mature enough to provide for themselves.
Ease up a bit. I didn't have a job in college. I was still dependent. But I studied and received my degree (two in fact) and now support myself wholly. Unless you're going to tell every college student over 18 to quit and get a full-time job, that idea doesn't fly.