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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Honestly, why is anyone trying to INCREASE the number of uninformed voters? I mentioned this around election time, and I will continue to mention it-too many people vote as is. The answer for irresponsible voters is not to add more, its to either educate the current voting population better or reduce the number currently allowed to vote. Honestly, this seems like the most rediculous thing I have seen on the political board. There is literally 100's of studies showing that the brain isn't as fully developed in younger children and teens. Debating something like this seems the equivalent of debating whether or not to eat glass shards, or if people should live underwater. There doesn't seem to really be any sort of logical basis for this.
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Again, the logical basis is that they are taxing these children. The children are not allowed to participate in the government that is taking money away from them. That is unfair and in fact when England pulled that little stunt on us, it inspired us to revolt and form our own country.
I'm not saying we should allow the children to vote. I'm saying that if we don't allow them to vote, we should not tax them.
Also, you seem to be pressing for only allowing informed voters to vote. While this would be great, keep in mind it's the government that would come up with the test to check if they're informed. That means that, for example, with the current power balance the republicans would be more inclined to use questions that would eliminate the democrats (cutting taxes for the wealthy is a good way to improve the economy, T or F?) as uninformed voters. Similarly, if the democrats were in power they'd be more inclined to use questions that would eliminate the republicans (Religion should play no part in government, T or F)
Any time you start requiring tests for voting, it becomes that much easier to force a group of people you don't like out of the voting booth.