How many 16-17 year-olds pay taxes?
by : Forest Carman
posted : 07/26/2006
Apparently, at the age of 16 (15 in some states I hear) you can legally have a job.
Meaning the government can take income tax out of you're hard-earned paycheck (unless you are not a LAW ABIDING person and get paid under the table)
The government takes our money...
So what you say? "Don’t you just get it all back with tax returns anyways?"
Yes. Yes you get it all back. But that is not the issue I wish to talk about.
This is about voting.
It's more then obvious that alot of teens out there are intelligent enough to know a thing or two about politics. More so then alot of adults.
We pay taxes, but have no control to where it goes.
Young adults; intelligent young adults are being used for money and they can't stop it.
One of two things needs to happen; either teen workers should stop being forced to pay income taxes, or we should be granted the right to vote.
But there is something that I have to address about this subject; I STRICTLY mean "teen workers" meaning ONLY teen workers should be granted one of the two above privileges.
Because of the sheep, the spoiled teens, the FREELOADERS.
If you're 17, your daddy owns a car dealership and you get whatever you want, and you have never lifted a finger to do work in your entire life, do you honestly think you have a right to influence the country?
But if you're 17, and you have been working tooth and nail to save up to buy a car so you can drive yourself to work and to school each day, WHILE paying into income tax and what not. I think you deserve something, its called suffrage; the right to vote.
Stand up, get off your ass, run up and down the street screaming "WE WANT WORKING-CLASS TEEN SUFFRAGE, AND WE WANT IT NOW!"
Maybe I sound like an ass, but hey, there have plenty of other senseless babble in this zine.
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