Still Taxed, Still Not Represented

A graphic of The British Tax Tea that appeared on the Revolutionary War Magazine during the Revolutionary War Period. These events are what sparked the eventual conflict known as the American Revolution.

Yesterday, we marked the end of another tax season, where the employed once again pay their fair share of taxes. That includes 16 year-olds, many of whom are working their first job(sometimes a second one too), saving up to attend college, or helping their parents weather the current economic climate. Yet they still don’t have a vote, which is sadly disappointing.

Yesterday, we marked the end of another tax season, where the employed once again pay their fair share of taxes. That includes 16 year-olds, many of whom are working their first job(sometimes a second one too), saving up to attend college, or helping their parents weather the current economic climate. Yet they still don’t have a vote, which is sadly disappointing.

After College Park’s recent achievement to lower the voting age to 16, making it the fourteenth in the country to do so, we should have way more cities. Unfortunately, we do not. It has been more than a decade since the first city in the country, Takoma Park, did so, yet, in addition to Albany in California last November, the thirteenth city to lower its municipal voting age to 16, we’ve hardly scratched the surface despite numerous national organizations, support from a former Speaker of the House and continued efforts across various regions in the U.S. More needs to be done to empower young people.