Come, now!

It's vitally important that the pandering and vote-buying base be expanded. Those old folks'll start dying soon, you know.

Honestly, I've long thought that if you made civics and government a series of required classes, and allowed kids who passed them to vote as young as 14, we'd have a healthier democracy.

Either that or we ought to raise the voting age to about 30. %-)

I remeber when the Constitution was amended to allow 18-year-olds to vote. Don't see where that has done much good. Looks like a disaster to appeal/pander to the sub-MTV generation. Voting will turn into little more than knee-jerk reacting to advertising in the mode of snack foods.

I'm in California, and can't see 14-year olds having the sense to walk on the sidewalk, let alone affect the nation's future.

Actually what they really want to do is to get the kids to vote for tax increases that they know the majority of the parents are opposed to having.

Our last school referendum here - my son was indoctrinated thoroughly by his teachers. More money or else! He came home and told us how the teachers were really putting the pressure on for the kids to go home and get parents to vote for the HUGE tax increase.

Now just imagine what effect they could have on a captive class of kids - and naturally, there would be voting AT the school. With teachers putting on the pressure and asking how the kid voted afterward - and please don't say they wouldn't - you all know they would!

When kids have to pay the taxes - THEN they can vote for them. I relent at 18 when kids are eligible for the military. If you're old enough to put your life on the line, you're old enough to vote.

All I want to know is... what if you apply the lens to this proposal that the Constitution once considered a certain class of person to be but 3/5ths a person.

So, in the eyes of these guys, 14 and 16 year olds count as less than a slave...

You could have some real fun watching them spin on that spike.