Georgia's Democratic congressman David Scott has died at age 80. Scott was the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party.
I believe it was Japan, but I was having a casual conversation with someone from SEA area and he told me publicly traded companies had a mandatory retirement age of like 68 for executives. I thought that was interesting.
This is the best way to do it. If I the future people are living well into their 150s and the average age increases, so too does the maximum age in office.
all federal employees should have mandatory retirement at 70. Including congress, judges, and president.
We require pilots to retire at the age of 65. If they’re not fit to fly a plane, why would they be fit to run a country?
70?? No one over the age of 63.
I believe it was Japan, but I was having a casual conversation with someone from SEA area and he told me publicly traded companies had a mandatory retirement age of like 68 for executives. I thought that was interesting.
I’d go to 75, maybe 78, but no more than 80. That’s definitely time to go.
Mean age in the US is 39. Lets round it to 40, make it 1.5 times that and cap it at 60.
This is the best way to do it. If I the future people are living well into their 150s and the average age increases, so too does the maximum age in office.
Only if cognitive capabilities follow the same trajectory…
75 is the mandatory retirement age for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.