Musings: Federal workers need a stop age
A federal TSA employee screens a passenger at LaGuardia Airport. A reader proposes no one older than 72 be allowed to assume govermment office. Credit: Charles Eckert
President Joe Biden is on the right track with limiting the terms of our Supreme Court justices, but why stop there?
We know that members of Congress will never agree to term limits, so why don’t we have mandatory retirement ages for all federal employees?
It already exists in the military, not to mention that the Federal Aviation Administration mandates retirement ages for pilots (65) and air traffic controllers (56).
I propose that no one can assume a government office if they’ll be older than 72 on the date they’d be sworn in. If that is the case, the candidate is not eligible to run for office.
This would eliminate the nonsense we just went through about Biden’s age and former President Donald Trump’s, too.
It would ensure a consistent turnover in the Supreme Court, as well as in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, most of whose members just don’t seem to want to let go.
— Tom Atkinson, Hauppauge
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