Redrafting age of adulthood to fit political whims
[...] the city’s progressive wing wants high school kids to vote — they want to lure young people into the tent before they start working for a living and paying taxes.
At a Chronicle debate Wednesday for the race to replace state Sen. Mark Leno, candidate Kim said she loves the scheme.
Wiener, a rival in the race, said that he has seen many intelligent high school students who are more informed than people in their 40s, 50s and 60s “who deny climate change, say that President Obama is not a citizen of this country” — I think he meant they say Obama is not a “natural born” citizen — and believe other things not sustained by the facts.
Loo charged Wiener, Kim and other supporters with “hypocrisy” for pushing the “nanny state” — San Francisco voted to raise the age at which adults can buy cigarettes to 21, before Gov. Jerry Brown signed a similar state law.
Like Loo, I would discourage any adult from smoking, but it is legal and I don’t think the government has the right to outlaw a legal activity for law-abiding adults.
Somehow San Francisco has constructed a system where adults cannot choose to buy legal products — tobacco — while children should be encouraged to vote for the folks who write these crazy laws.
Under President Ronald Reagan, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which led all 50 states to set a drinking age of 21.
Girls of any age can elect to have an abortion in California, but they can’t get a tattoo without parental consent until they are 18.
Liberals construct fancy arguments to justify the differences, but we know that they are using age as a pretext to trample on the rights of free adults to do things they do not like.
Attorney General Kamala Harris came to The Chronicle’s editorial board Thursday to ask for the paper’s endorsement in the race to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer.
After the state’s top law enforcer discussed how the brain’s judgment faculties begin to develop at age 18, I asked her about Vote at 16.
In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which prompted states to set a drinking age of 21 or lose federal transportation funds.