Pros And Cons For People Under The Drinking Age To 18

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Some taxes are good and go towards good things but others are ridiculous, and when you at teen at the hardest part of your life trying to getting everything together, taxes are the last thing you want to be worrying about. People under the age of 18 shouldn’t ‘t have to pay taxes because they need help moving out, they aren’t even adults yet , and teen have more important things to spend money on.

People under 18 usually aren’t fully out living on their own and moving out is one of the hardest parts of life.Most teens don’t make enough money from their job to be able to afford a home and be able to pay taxes. Teens don’t make a lot of money from their jobs, sometimes they are making minimum wage and with the price of housing, they have to spend every penny just for a place to stay. As a teen that’s trying to move out this can be one of the hardest things in life. Screwing up here can really put you back in life and cause you to possibly become homeless. We
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By not being able to vote you have no say in what your hard earned money is going towards. This is taxation without representation because you are not represented by the government and have no decision.People can say that these teens are represented by their parents but teens can have different thoughts or opinions than their parents and when it all comes down to it, it's the teens money. Also learning about space which is one of the biggest things that our tax dollars go towards has no impact on us at all. Billions of tax dollars are spent every year on space exploration that teen could be spending on rent, school and bettering

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