Debates

“I believe we should keep the voting age at 18 because 16-year-olds often lack the legal independence and life experience required to make fully informed political decisions. At 16, most people are still legally dependents living at home, which can make them more susceptible to the influence of parents or teachers rather than forming their own independent views. Additionally, because 16-year-olds typically don't pay significant income taxes or live entirely on their own, they may not yet have a direct stake in the economic and social consequences of the policies they would be voting on.”

“NO Nothing is free. Free college means taxpayers, including people who never went to college, foot the bill for other people's degrees in gender studies and art history. Competition and cost pressure universities to improve. Remove tuition and you remove accountability. Schools will bloat, quality will drop, and degrees will mean even less than they do now. If college is too expensive, the fix is cutting administrative waste and expanding trade schools, not handing universities a blank government check.”

“Yes Congress should definitely ban TikTok in the United States since it is a threat to security in the country as ByteDance the company behind TikTok is a Chinese firm and provides a massive data to Chinese Intelligence about the citizens. Countries like India already understood the seriousness of the data of citizens and banned it in amid 2020. Mr. Trump should ban TikTok and protect privacy of individuals in States. TikTok as a product of ByteDance is a disaster for people as it addicts people and grab maximum attention. Short-form content desensitize the brain and decreases attention span. People with lower attention spans have lower memory and decreased productivity. Besides the decreasing attention span and desensitization of brain mainly it steals your data and sell it to Chinese Intelligence which is way more worse. Since there is a lot of tension between USA and China this is very important to avoid giving data of individuals in States to Chinese Intelligence. Which can be an upper hand to China if the tensions grew and lead to a war. The Fentanyl Crisis and TikTok are majorly connected too. As TikTok acts as a marketplace for dr*g sellers and buyers.”

“Yes I think Social media apps should require a identity verification since there is much of explicit content which can affect an underage audience, Social media is filled with a ton of underage audience. It can even reduce the number of scammers on internet since most of scams nowadays are now being operated on social media. Big terrorist operations are discussed on Social media apps like Telegram. Social media apps are even used for Drug supply. Identity verification can lower the risks of terrorism and drug supply.”

“Student loan forgiveness is fair when it eases crippling debt and opens up opportunities for students, but it also requires systemic fixes to prevent repeating the cycle.”

“Billionaires can afford higher taxes, but it has to be designed smartly. If not, wealth taxes or targeted levies can raise revenue without hurting the middle class and will also fund public goods while minimizing loopholes and discouraging tax flight.”

“I don’t see why they shouldn’t, these university’s make millions from them playing whether it’s through ticket sales, advertisements, etc. why should the school take all the money when it’s mostly the althetes are the ones who earned it.”