The National Minimum Drinking Age

At the age of 18, you are considered a legal adult and enjoy all the rights. At the age of 18, you are expected to vote, serve the jury, marry, sign a contract, take the right and responsibility to join the army, including the responsibility of life and death, and use it. And many other things have been raised. In 1984, the central government raised the drinking age from 18 years old to 21 years old.

By the early 1980s, 16 out of 29 states had returned to their original minimum of 21 years. Finally, in 1984 the federal government passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Under the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, it is mandatory to use 21 years old as the minimum age for purchasing alcoholic beverages and public ownership in all state laws. Countries that have failed to implement the bill reduce the share cost of the federal highway by 10% per year. Twenty years later, this argument has not been solved yet. On the one hand, people are in favor of lowering the minimum age. In particular, Professor David P. Hanson of the State University of New York believes that the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act is ineffective and imbalanced in nature. Hansen and his colleagues have offered a lot of research to prove that the law is ineffective in curbing the consumption of minors.

Let's look at the history of the age of drinking at the age of 21. This was the Wisconsin State Act of 1986 to comply with the nationwide minimum drinking age law passed by President Ronald Reagan. Prior to this, the age of drinking was 19 years old (18 years old from 1972 to 1984). As part of the National Minimum Drinking Act, it is stipulated that states with a drinking age under 21 years may lose a significant proportion of federal funds (the annual reduction of the bar from 8.2 is 8% Wisconsin state reduction is 53.7 million). This year USD). The proposed bill to reduce Wisconsin's drinking age depends on Wisconsin State being unable to lose funds on the federal road.