Reduce Voting Age in Ireland?

They are paid from taxes. Each pubsec employee is a bill for the state to pay. That bill is paid by private sector workers and general taxation.

On average a pub sec employee is paid 35% more than a private sector worker, they are also given far more paid holidays and sick leave, can claim retirement earlier (or much earlier for Gardai and Defence Forces), and of course their pensions are all unfunded and the current amount (2024) the state is on the hook for is *drumroll*……. €170,000,000!!!

So yeah they get paid heaps are mostly useless jobsworths, and give a *tiny* bit back. And now the rest of us are taxed to bits to pay even more for them!

Ok so for all the soon to be 16 year old voters, this is called "arguing in bad faith".

No matter what I write or how much I source it, someone who just wants you to shut up will say your sources arent good enough and that you are just talking rubbish.

There is no point engaging them further.

Exactly what would you like a source for.

Everything I've written is common knowledge (to anyone over the age of 16 of course, they're so well informed these days)

Even though it's becoming more like Ireland the UK still technically allows you to leave school after GCSE. So I do feel for people who are out in the workforce but have none of the benefits of an 18 year old.

I myself done my Leaving at 17 and a friend the same year was 16 when we both started college. I would love to see a more dynamic system where you can apply to vote with proof of a completed Leaving cert.

People say what do to teens know about the world and in my experience it's a lot more than many 80+ voters.

Looking at the UK it was mostly old people that were so dumb that they voted Brexit. Not the young.

I would agree with a voting age linked to the age of criminal responsibility, if you're old enough and mature enough to have a say in the future of a country, you're old enough to understand actions and consequences. I think it suits left leaning governments to have a younger voting age because young people tend to be more idealistic, as many people get older they start to realise that nothing is free, and look for governments that acknowledge that.

If it's so cushy and lucrative, why don't you apply? Is it because you couldn't even spell PAS, never mind get past a competency based interview? Guess we'll never know.

Anyway, it's Friday afternoon, time to stare into space for the rest of the day. You know they don't let us look out the windows in the morning because then we wouldn't have anything to do in the afternoon………thanks for paying my wages.

That's great news. Please let me know how I can get my refund of all the tax I paid last year? I'll give you a 10% commission when I get my refund.

If you are old enough to get a job and pay tax, you should be allowed a say in who runs the country you live in.