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If a parent was bribing their kid to vote, that would be the same as buying a vote from an adult. If I offered the average 18 year old American male an X Box for their vote, they'd take it. You can't buy X Boxes for every 18 year old, so it doesn't really matter. You'd have to have organization the likes of which voters have never seen to have bribery work on a national level. I say no way Jose to that one.
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No it's not!!! Apparently no one here has taken any courses in psychology. Like I've been saying before, a Child is mentally undeveloped. There are SIGNIFICANT mental differences between children and adults! And the sutle influence of adult on child cannot be discounted!
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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.
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Children aren't taxed. They can't legally work bellow a certain age (I think it's around 15). Over that age, they aren't taxed. When I was working as a cashier in High School, I filled out a tax exemption form, and was never taxed. If anything, child tax credits means that children _recieve_ money from the government, not the other way around.
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Not maturity..hmmm....What is this magical thing that adults have that children don't? All I can think of is experience. The only reason children don't have experience with voting is because it is not available to them.
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take a psych course. You'll understand much better the difference between children and adults. Again, a five year old is not an adult with a small body.
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I find the arbitrary decision to declare the age of 18 as the line for legal adulthood almost as absurd as the even higher drinking age that our country imposes on us.
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Assuming that you agree that children are not adults, you must realize that there needs to exist a line delineating legal adulthood. It is impossible to create some sort of adulthood test whereby each individual child is tested for adulthood and granted the rights thereof. Therefore, there needs to be a legal definition which separates children from adults. Any such line is arbitrary by definition. The reason why we choose 18 is because of cultural reasons. As such, these cultural reasons are as good as any, since the line is entirely arbitrary. Since the onset of puberty starts anywhere from 13-16 years old, 18 seems like a pretty fair choice.
CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS TRAPPED IN SMALL BODIES. GO TAKE A COURSE IN DEVELOPEMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROLOGY, BIOLOGY, ANYTHING!