Today we frequently face the claims that modern society and legislation in the first place have double standards when referring to the youth. Yet during the Vietnam War 19-year-olds were obliged to fight in the front but had no right to vote. Today legal responsibility is applied to individuals who reached the age of 16 years. Consequently, in some cases, youngsters are treated as adults but when it comes to voting they still remain irresponsible teenagers. In this respect, lowering the legal voting age can be considered as a step towards the equality between rights and responsibilities of teenagers.
The economic dimension of the US is sufficiently contributed to by teenagers. About 80 percent of high school students have a temporary job and pay taxes from all their earnings. Despite a popular image, many American teens are law-obedient citizens who try to make the first decisions concerning their adult life. Surely, they stay under the moral and financial guidance of their parents but in a year or so they probably will have to leave home and manage on their own at the campus. And still, rights of individuals close to high school graduation are sufficiently limited as they cannot vote for officials who will predetermine their future.
Advocates of lowering voting age claim that allowing 16-year-olds to make a political choice will increase the turnover of voters across the country. Voting is much easier for those teens who still live with their parents. Ingraining the culture of voting from the earlier age will benefit to youngsters as they are still able to vote inside their home community which is not the case with the 18-year-olds. That is why it is desirable for the legal voting age to be lowered to the age of 16.