SEN. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., evidently inspired by the recent enactment of the expanded Centenarian Law that he co-authored, now wants to lower the age of senior citizenship from 60 to 56. Not only is this proposal rather insulting, as the reactions of several of our colleagues and friends who are of that approximate age immediately indicated upon hearing the news, but it is the same sort of unnecessary, point-missing populism as the increase in the minimum wage recently championed by the Senate: not at all a solution to the problem it purports to address, a measure that will have limited positive impact and perhaps negative unintended consequences.
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