Raising the voting age for the snowflake generation

[northernladyuk]

The bar would be set pretty low. It wouldn't be anything like the property and income qualifications of past times.

So a part time minimum wage earner would be as eligible to vote as a cigar chomping capitalist fat cat with a country estate.

The above minimum wage earners would use their control of parliament to exclude the minimum wage earners.

[BrilloPad]

As people seem to be living longer there are increasingly senile older people. Why not an upper age limit? Or how about a test before you can vote?

[northernladyuk]

As people seem to be living longer there are increasingly senile older people. Why not an upper age limit? Or how about a test before you can vote?

I would like to see aggressive tax avoiders have their voting rights retrospectively removed so they can then be charged with historic electoral fraud.

[OwlHoot]

I would like to see aggressive tax avoiders have their voting rights retrospectively removed so they can then be charged with historic electoral fraud.

Tax avoidance, aggressive or otherwise, is NOT ILLEGAL.

Nor is it immoral, unlike one of the favourite tricks of totalitarian regimes of deliberately blurring linguistic distinctions!

[northernladyuk]

Tax avoidance, aggressive or otherwise, is NOT ILLEGAL.

Nor is it immoral, unlike one of the favourite tricks of totalitarian regimes of deliberately blurring linguistic distinctions!

It is if it is retrospectively criminalised.

[WTFH]

Raising the voting age for the snowflake generation

Anyone not a net contributor over their life should not be in a position to vote

By "net contributor" do you mean that if daddy had millions which got passed on to you, they don't count as your millions, you actually have to have worked, earned money of your own accord, and not relied on handouts from the wealthy/your parents (or your divorce)?

[d000hg]

Since the younger generations seem to increasingly be maturing at a much later age (if at all) than previously, should the voting age be raised to 21 (or later) to save us from the easily led and feckless?



Discuss...

Someone's getting old.

[WTFH]

The voting age should be the same as the army recruitment age. If you can sign up to fight for your country, you should have the right to vote for who might send you into battle.

...the bit that I would struggle to see defined is the upper age for voting. Is it retirement, or when/if you lose your driving license, or maybe when you are not declared mentally fit to vote.
(My mother in law has dementia, she is rarely lucid but still has a right to vote. She doesn't know who we are or where she is. Her family have power of attorney over her affairs. You might be able to get the balance of drugs right that she would see the ballot paper, she might be able to make a mark on it, but she wouldn't know what she was doing or why she was doing it. She might ask why Churchill's name wasn't on the ballot as most of her memories relate to the war)

[d000hg]

As people seem to be living longer there are increasingly senile older people. Why not an upper age limit? Or how about a test before you can vote?

I think the test is "can you find where to vote"

Vote should only be allowed for people with higher education that understand core concepts of economics etc. Probably an exam that eligible you to vote would be nice too.

So you fail.

I'd also introduce a net lifetime tax/benefit floor on eligibility to vote. Anyone not a net contributor over their life should not be in a position to vote themselves more state largesse literally at the expense of others!

Tory voters pay the bulk of the tax, so they should get the bulk of the votes and we should have a 1-party Toryitarian state.

[VectraMan]

The voting age should be the same as the army recruitment age. If you can sign up to fight for your country, you should have the right to vote for who might send you into battle.

But isn't that 18? Or at least 18 before you might do any actual fighting.

Perhaps it should be as soon as you first pay tax. But I guess in theory a baby could earn money and pay tax.