Should the voting age in the US be raised to 25?

As someone in my mid-fifties, I’d like to hear from those below 25 and of the voting age. After all, they are the ones voting on their future.

No. Not unless the age of the draft is raised to 25.

Nope. The right to vote isn’t based on one’s cerebral abilities. I can think of some people above 25 who should probably not be voting, developed cortex or not.

Also, what @Dutchess_lll said. We already tried telling people they could be forced to fight for their country but couldn’t vote. It didn’t work. As long as adults under 25 are paying taxes, going to adult prisons, and subject to conscription, they should be allowed to have a say in how their society is run.

In addition to the draft, they should also raise the taxable age to the voting age.

After all, as we used to say, “taxation without representation is tyranny!”

(Also, even though the brain may not stop developing until about 25, many adults get largely stuck with the capacities they had when they got messed up and never got healing, somewhere in the 5 to 12 range.)

I think it should be lowered to 16.

There should be a maximum voting age of 55.
As I have posted before, in the last election, the older you got, the more likely you were to vote for Drumpf.
So, if anything, when it comes to voting, the “responsible decision – age” relationship is reversed.
Ergo, the minimum voting age needs to be lowered, and there needs to be a maximum voting age.

What, the IQ you mean?

What a bunch of weird arguments. No one has been drafted since 1973 and our tax laws have nothing to do with age. Democrats has been pushing for voting rights for illegals that don’t even understand our system of government. We have enough problems to focus on, let’s not throw in another distraction. Leave it alone.

It doesn’t matter that no one has been drafted since 1973. 18-year-old males in the U.S. still must register with Selective Services, i.e. the potential to be drafted. It may be unlikely but it doesn’t change the fact that those under 25 still could potentially be drafted, and it was the age of the draft that largely drove lowering the voting age to 18 in the first place.

And that’s what we’re arguing: leave it alone.

All right how about if you get drafted or enlist, you get to vote and if you pay taxes you get to vote. No service and no taxes, no vote.

That would be better than barring adults under 25 from voting. But I would prefer that being an adult allows you to vote, as it is now. Voting isn’t a privilege that one earns through certain acts, it’s a right adult American citizens have access to. I was just pointing out examples of other responsibilities that adults bear. The age of adulthood may be fairly arbitrary, but I see little justification for it not aligning with the voting age.

Yes, only allow people who subject themselves to military, state-controlled brainwashing to vote, and bar poor people from voting.
Sounds like the conservative position

I’ve meet plenty of 50 and 60 year-olds who never developed a maturity level beyond 16, so no, I don’t raising the voting age will accomplish anything worthwhile.

(@Jaxk, I know no one has been drafted since Vietnam. I was just making a point without getting all long winded about it.)

It seems the voting age should be consistent with the age you can be licensed to drive, drink, enlist or tried as an adult.

No. I know people younger than 25 who are smarter than people who are 60. Younger voters are voting for their future. They need to vote.

No. At 18 a person is considered an adult for most legal purposes. They can vote, they can live on their own, etc. As an adult, you should have the right to vote. I would suggest that allowing them the right to drink should also be instated.

No.