Ummmm.
No.
National MP calls for jury duty cut-off age to increase
A bill to raise the automatic excusal age for jury duty has been drawn from the biscuit tin and will now go through the parliamentary process.
The cut-off age is 65, but National MP Carl Bates wanted the age to increase to 72.
Bates told Morning Report increasing the age would be an opportunity to review the role seniors play in the civic duty of being on a jury.
Look, I’m all for reviewing the Jury service to increase the payments and cover costs, but do we really want more judgy Boomers joining juries to pass judgment on the rest of us?
Don’t they do that already?
I’m more interested in talking about lowering the voting age to 16 while making the maximum age you can vote 70.
No good can come of giving Boomers more places to judge.
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I’m inclined to agree MB.
Increasingly there are generational tendencies across everything from Gaza, to Te Tiriti, and certainly to an economy based on tax free capital gain housing.
Thousands of boomers did not support Rogernomics but got swamped by those that did and do. Shame as elder poverty gets worse.
There are also plenty of new gens that know no better and accept the neo liberal flow-maybe the current vandal Govt. will be a wake up call for a number of them. Each boomer funeral raises the chance for getting rid of these swine who act for corporations and donors first.
I definitely believe there should be an upper age limit for voting. The boomers formed their world view in the 60’s and a lot don’t seem to understand the world is a very different place today. They have no right making decisions they won’t be around to see the consequences of and selling the younger generations out.
Maybe the upper limit should be 30 as it was the squeezed middle that voted the shit government in we have now .Those squeezed selfish cunts are now screaming the most about having no spear cash to waste on extravagant wants not needs .
I think you’ll find that many of the ‘boomers’ formed their ‘financial’ world view in the 1980’s and beyond, because in the 1960’s NZ was a social democracy with much higher tax rates for the wealthy. As a consequence, like in most western countries at that time, society was more egalitarian. Today, neoliberalism has deliberately destroyed the concept of society. This has always been the Atlas Network, and other Neoliberal think tanks, objective. Neoliberalism supports corporatocracy/oligarchy which is what we are witnessing now.
You seem to be lumping all baby boomers together. I am a baby boomer and I think very differently from many others. I generally agree with all the articles here. I saw the development of policies in the 1980s and nineties that brought a lot of harm that is still happening, and I don’t want to see those policies furthered now, so hence I’m with you on most thing. I think I do understand the world of today. Seventy is actually a young age to cut off voting.
Tough to get jurors. Better incentives for millenials would help.
Like a juror from home link?
Mandate voting and fuck everything else.
I am surprised to learn that there is a cut off age of 65. The more oldies, kaumatua, boomers people with lived experience and wisdom on juries the better- right? Lawyers and defendents can pull the wool over the eyes of an 18 year old juror any day of the week.
How else you gonna make up the numbers?
Drop the voting age to 8 or 9. And allow them to do jury duty.
There, happy now Bomber?!
Martyn – I still have mixed feelings about the Boomers…most a very nice, BUT they caused a lot of problems, such as Housing, Education, and Health
Given the strange social justice ideas initiated by certain judges, and the attempts to officially undermine justice of late, having anachronistic ideals from Boomerton might balance things out. A judge could still fail to sentence an offender adequately.