From the Department of Obvious Statistics...

[Gman]

The federal government is too involved in our daily lives. They've overstepped their Constitutional authority. "Oh, but the states regulate legal drinking age", you may say. Again, the federal government has destroyed state sovereignty. When the federal government takes funds from the citizens of states, it then uses those funds as a cudgel to get compliance from the state governments. The feds assert that if you don't raise your legal drinking age to 21, you won't get federal highway funding. What's a state to do?

I've lived through this drinking age example. I was in college when the drinking age in TX was 19. Then when I was 20 1/2, the federal mandate pushed the state limit to 21. I was a responsible adult for 1.5 years, and then I wasn't for 6 months. That's about as arbitrary as it gets. I didn't drink before I was legal at 19. Do you think I stopped for the 6 months that I was not legal? Hell no. I broke the law for 6 months as I rebelled against the flawed logic and stupidity of the whole situation.

I believe the only age limits in the US Constitution are 35 to be President or Vice President, 30 to be a Senator, and 25 to be a Representative. If the age of majority is 18, and you're considered an adult and can sign contracts and represent your own affairs, stop playing games with other arbitrary limits, particularly at the federal level. Let the citizens in states decide what's best for themselves.

The biggest issue regarding these arbitrary limits is math. You have new adults/voters at 18 that are vastly outweighed by those that are older and not affected by the impacts of their decisions. This follows my logic that legislators should be unable to create legislation that doesn't apply to them.