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Or change the max age to 75.
Why not both? Also make it 70.
If we're selecting cool max ages for things I suggest 69.
Personally I think it should be a definition instead of a straight number
Something like the current LD50 of old age or something.
Retirement age of 8 years ago (to prevent extending it for themselves) - 4 years.
We could tie it to average American life expectancy and that'd incentivize Congress to improve healthcare in this country
How about we just have them take the ACT or hell even a GED test to qualify to be in the running?
I swear it's easier to become president than it is to get into college.
Funniest version of this I've heard of is having to pass the citizenship test every time you want to run
Tbh as a man in his mid 20s, born and raised in the USA, and passed high-school constitution test; I don't think I could pass the citizenship test.
It's over complicated by design.
What is the minimum age to be eligible to the function?
What is the life expectancy for the candidate's gender?
Life expectancy - minimum age of eligibility = max age of eligibility
Right now that would restrict eligibility to be president down to between the ages of 35 and 41
I'm no fan of gerontocracy but I'm pretty sure almost nobody who's served as president would have been eligible under those restrictions.
Well looks like they either have to work on increasing life expectancy for everyone or lower the minimum age or presidents will become very young, right? Either way, people win.
By the way, that's max 40 for men and 45 for women, so women presidents at last!
Bring in the downvotes, my solution is the equivalent of what they're doing to young people right now yet I haven't seen anyone complain about it!