Lowering Voting Age

When the 26th amendment was passed, it gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. Today, nearly twenty-five years later, the question has become "should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?" It was not difficult at all to sit down and come up with pretty good reasons on why we do not see the problem with lowering the voting age. I mean why not? Teens start working at around the age of 15, which means they pay taxes, right? At the age of 16, a teen is able to drop out of school or become emancipated so shouldn’t they be eligible to vote? A 16 year old is eligible to obtain a license to be able to drive a motor vehicle, so it that teenager is mature enough to operate a vehicle which is allowing to take their lives and the lives of others driving around them under their control, they should be allowed the right to vote. In these times, youth suffer under a double standard of having adult responsibilities but no rights. I feel like we have a good argument and points to back up what we are saying to lower the voting age.
Lowering the voting age cannot hurt anybody; if anything it could better this economy. The world’s future is in the hands of the children of today. Who’s to say that a 16 year old is not more knowledgeable than an 18 year old? There are so many foolish people in this world that abuse their voting rights or do not vote at all. Lowering the voting age could not only better our economy but the kids around the world will finally have a