Ann Coulter wants voting age increased to 26
 

Marking the thread so I can comply with Official Off-Topic By-Law XXXIV, Part C, Subsection iii, Regarding All Posts Related To Ann Coulter And Obligatory Picture Of Her Vagina, once I get home.

They should also ban people over 60 from voting as well, and people with no education, and those suffering from mental medical conditions and those on drugs with mind-altering effects (or side-effects) and...

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I'd still hit it http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

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I especially like the comment at the end where the watch manager says he's only seen this kind of thing 3-4 times before. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/lol.gif

Taking it one incendiary step further (she certainly has a knack for that) Coulter suggests that the voting age be raised to 26, the age, according to the new health care bill, through which young people are able to be covered under their parent's health insurance. Reasonable suggestion.

Is there some kind of obvious connection between voting and someone's parents' health coverage?

I seem to be missing it.

In Canada, you're eligible for your parents' health care insurance after 18 years old only if you are a student (and therefore unlikely to have your own insurance).

Is it different in your communist country?

The point is that if you're too young to be able to pay for your own healthcare, you are too young to understand the real world since you're still being sheltered by your precious parents.

She's making a dig at the healthcare law. Covering kids up to 26 is retarded and absurd.

You are so ****ing stupid.

FIRST OF ALL. People graduate from 4-year colleges at TWENTY TWO. That is FOUR YEARS EARLIER than 26. Add in 2 years for a master's degree if you want and that's still TWENTY FOUR.

SECONDLY. Do you think it makes the insurance any less expensive to force them to support kids up to 26 as opposed to giving parents the option to purchase such a plan? If yes, have you ever suffered brain damage?

To make this even more ridiculous, I know a number of people who are MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS at the age of 26*. What the ****.

*Or married and had kids at that age, and now they are older, but the point stands.

Not if you take a gap year, you work for a couple years and then go back to school, or you go for a PhD, etc. I know TONS of people still doing post-secondary education at 26.

You seem to have no concept of how other people function in this world. Not everyone is you.

SECONDLY. Do you think it makes the insurance any less expensive to force them to support kids up to 26 as opposed to giving parents the option to purchase such a plan? If yes, have you ever suffered brain damage? I think it is quite obvious that if it was not required of insurance companies, no companies would offer it -- or if they did offer it, the cost of such a system would be so high that companies would not ever get it.

The end result is your country will put further disincentives into post-secondary education by increasing the real-world cost to the students. That is BAD for your country long-term.

Let me amend: Asher is extremely smart when talking about anything OTHER than insurance. Or the military. Your problem is very simple: lack of perspective. People aren't stupid for having different political opinions than you -- in fact, you are stupid for thinking others stupid for having a different view on politics.

I think it's ****ing retarded to ask 18 year old freshmen to pay for health insurance. Do you have any concept of how expensive health insurance is, HC? Do you have any concept of how expensive tuition is? Textbooks? Lodging and food? You've not ever gone to college, you've never lived outside of your parents' house with 18 bathrooms -- how can we expect you to understand the financial burden college students already face?

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Some people take gap years and spend ages to pass college!

This law must be good for the entire country because it helps them!

Also, let's PASS AN AMENDMENT TO THE VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION EXEMPTING VETERANS FROM THE PROPERTY TAX.

Asher, if they didn't offer it, parents can PAY for their children's insurance just like they are their college education, it's the same amount of money either way.

You're embarrassing yourself here.

Asher seems to think you can make costs disappear by passing laws requiring companies to package more **** in with their products.

Two words: MAGICAL. THINKING.

A lot of people over 50 are experiencing advanced stages of mental decline. They should also be forbidden to vote. 26-45 should be the voting range.

There's wider sociopolitical issues here that I don't think you are able to understand yet, HC.

A well-educated, healthy populace is a net benefit for your country. Post-secondary education in the US is already some of the most expensive in the world, which deters many people from that route. Adding additional financial burdens on them means you're either going to have tons of uninsured college students (which is obviously very bad), or less college students altogether as people can't afford the whole package.

This would have very obvious long-term effects beyond the fact that you don't think companies should have to pay for it (which indirectly comes out of the salary of their employees [eg, their parents], I hope you understand).

Considering the US' ridiculously low corporate tax rates, I've zero sympathy for *****ing about how expensive this is to companies. Look at the corporate tax rate for the US today compared to 1960...

At least in Argentina where I live, many kids who actually get to college, seem to go through a commie phase (with some even flirting with anarchism) that lasts for a few years in which they are terrible retards.

I wish the voting age were increased to the point in which youthful commies have grown out of their ideas.

Screw the post grads. They need an incentive to stop sucking off the teat of academia and get out into the real world.

Yeah that really has worked well in giving the US some utterly horrible health care politices...

Heck, I'd rather go a single payer system than the system we've had prior. I think the ACA is a good step.

It's hard to appreciate a medical plan or even health services until you actually need them.