<p>You forgot the most important one for 18...you can vote! (Also, you will be tried and an adult for any crime!)</p>
<p>The car rental one is because of the terrible driving records of those under 25. Car rental companies are privately owned firms and may restrict who they rent to in this way if they would like.</p>
<p>I think the 4th and 5th ones are absolutely ludicrous. I mean, why can't I, a 17 year old, call a restaurant to reserve a table for my friends and I? I can certainly afford it, so what's the deal?</p>
<p>And the drinking age at 21 is TOO high. I think it should be around 18.</p>
<p>7th is pretty stupid too. I guess a lot of people figure once you're 25, you're out of your wild-child phase.</p>
<p>i don't see why you have to be a minimum of 35 to run for president. do they think you've finally reached "the proper age" to make such decisions to run a nation?</p>
<p>i think it should be lowered. is there difference between a 25 year old and a 35 year old?</p>
<p>I think that, even if they lowered the age of eligibility for the president to 25, most presidents elected would be at least 40. The reason behind this rule is so the president has some experience in government. However, though the voters should decide what constitutes "proper experience", this law will not be abolished simply because our government is resistant to change.</p>
<p>1) I guess it is to protect the children under 13 from child predators. Perhaps, they think people become mature enough to protect themselves online at 13.</p>
<p>3) It is the best that the anti-violent/sexual movie lobbists could get.</p>
<p>4) You cannot enter into a legal contract until you are 18.</p>
<p>the age 25 restriction has to do with car rental companies' insurance premiums. If they allow "kids" under 25 to rent, they would have to pay higher insurance premiums, significant enough that they make the cut off at 25.</p>
<p>I agree that number 5 is stupid. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 and we as a society should start to remove the stigma with drinking. Alcohol is a perfectly integrated drink (for almost all ages) in most other countries, but here "it kills your brain cells" (not true, btw, in any sense of the phrase)</p>
<p>Maybe they could lower it to 19, then people in high school couldn't have access to it. But they would never do that, because campus police could not justify their existence!</p>
<p>But to just make the age arbitrarily 19 so high schoolers couldn't get alcohol doesn't make sense. 18 is the only age that is reasonable to change it to, since that is the age we have designated as the one at which one can vote, enter into legal contract, and a host of other things.</p>
<p>Specifically be drafted and die for your country. It always pist me off something fierce when they busted someone in the military for underage drinking. I mean this poor bastard is trusted with a 100 million tank, but can't crack open a Coors Light?</p>
<p>By the same token, anyone who commits murder, rape or sells illegal drugs to children should be tried and convicted as an adult, irregardless of age. </p>
<p>Since children think that they should have the same rights and priviledges as adults, eliminate juvenile hall and have convicted children live with adult prisoners in adult jails.</p>
<p>Anyone who receives the death penalty should be executed within one year, irregardless of age.</p>
<p>Victims of children, who are convicted of crimes, should be able to sue the children in civil court and put a lien on any future scholarship money, welfare money (aid to families with dependent children) or other government assistance, childhood allowance, holiday and birthday presents, etc. that the convicted child may receive. </p>
<p>After all, children want to be treated like adults !!!</p>
<p>I also think that prostitution and smut (adult entertainment, adult bookstore & internet website sales, etc.) should be taxed 50% with that tax revenue going to cover the cost of free or reduced public healthcare.</p>
<p>May I ask why gsp? You do realize how far spread it is. It would just get sold through tax free areas. People would get it no matter what regardless of how much it costs, and people would avoid the taxes. In reality it wouln't change anything, nor give money.</p>
<p>and I second bigndude's question? why tax the porn industry more than any other business? Thats all it is - a business. Whether one chooses to buy their product is an individual's choice. You can't just tax something that you don't like.</p>
<p>haha (again) bigndude, let's see just how far people would go and how much they really would pay for their "entertainment and pleasure!" And, in the meantime, generating some much need tax revenue. A "smut tax" could be treated like mandated state and/or federal gasoline, liquor and tobacco taxes, or a hotel/no-tell motel local occupancy tax.</p>