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Doug ,

she is hesitant about imposing age limits

Y’know, except the minimums that already exist.

If there’s a lower limit there should be an upper one. If we’re acknowledging that different people can be more or less capable in their 80s then we should do the same for late 20s.

But we won’t because anyone young enough is a “dumb kid” to far too many Americans, especially the ones ok with the status quo.

Kerensky1101 ,

My thoughts on it should be that a politician can serve until the full retirement age as defined by the federal government, which is currently 67. Mental decline in later life is definitely a thing and I don’t feel like people who are in the age range for mental decline should be running the country.

Facebones ,

As somebody who generally exists outside of all the cliques and status quos, I can’t comprehend how this isn’t already a thing (especially considering that age has been bumped up a couple times to keep “with the times”)

Poggervania ,
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On paper this sounds good, but in practice I worry if people in power would end up going “lmao let’s increase the retirement age to 100” and then fuck over the citizenry even harder.

Taleya , (edited )

Oh they would. They definitely would

Doug ,

There are a few things that should be tied to other things imo.

Congressional salary? Median income for your district might be a good one. Something related to minimum wage could also work.

Kerensky1101 ,

My thoughts on the congressional salary is that it should be a multiplier of the minimum wage and congress caht change that multiplier. They want a raise? Then they have to raise the minimum wage for everyone

Doug ,

I’m very much with you there. The other option was rooted in the idea of being invested in improvement for their constituants. As long as you crack down on “contributions” you’d probably also see a lot less PAC money in a whole lot of areas too.

But there should be more motivation for them to see the people succeed. The job itself clearly isn’t enough for a lot of them.

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