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16 year old's aren't paying taxes, they shouldn't vote. There is malice behind this idea.
Darn it I can't upvote you because it says I must spread it around. I don't understand why when I have not upvoted anyone on this new thread. What am I missing
By this logic let’s take voting rights away from stay-at-home moms.
Plenty of 16 yr olds pay taxes, btw.
Yes there are 16 year olds paying taxes. The housewife does contribute to the household and without the housewife staying home to work she would be working outside the home paying taxes.
I have to say I do not agree to children voting.
We all know the human brain doesn't finish forming until around twenty-five years of age. If anything, the age to vote should be raised, not lowered, and I say this as someone who is twenty-four years old and supported raising the age to vote when I was eighteen.
Now, why doesn't Governor Murphy focus on lowering the unbelievably high property taxes Garden Stater's are forced to pay. Or the high income taxes? Or the high sales tax? No wonder I'm seeing so many New Jersey license plates here, in North Carolina. That and New York license plates.
Taxes are the real issue Governor Murphy should be focused on...
We all know the human brain doesn't finish forming until around twenty-five years of age. If anything, the age to vote should be raised, not lowered, and I say this as someone who is twenty-four years old and supported raising the age to vote when I was eighteen.
Now, why doesn't Governor Murphy focus on lowering the unbelievably high property taxes Garden Stater's are forced to pay. Or the high income taxes? Or the high sales tax? No wonder I'm seeing so many New Jersey license plates here, in North Carolina. That and New York license plates.
Taxes are the real issue Governor Murphy should be focused on...
Under what governor were NJ property taxes lower? As far as I recall, we have long had the highest taxes in the nation. They just didn't suddenly get higher a couple of years ago.
At least now both parties agreed to lower property taxes for seniors to retain us in the state, although I will believe it when I actually see it.
There is no set "age" where the brain becomes fully developed, it varies from person to person as maturity comes from life experience. In fact, our brains are constantly developing, some have more mature brains and can handle "adult" things, some can't, that's pretty much it.
The 26th amendment passed in 1971 gave 18 year olds the right to vote. The argument was that if you are old enough to kill g--ks in Vietnam, you are old enough to vote.
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