Pennsylvania’s legislature is on the verge of squandering more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars that would need to be spent to re-advertise the proposed amendment to the state constitution to raise the judicial retirement age from 70 to 75 if a vote on the amendment is postponed from this month’s primary election to this year’s general election in November.
Although wasting slightly more than $1 million may represent merely a drop in the ocean that represents Pennsylvania’s fiscal budget, given the lack of adequate money to fund unquestionably worthwhile pursuits such as educating Pennsylvania’s children, one could reasonably question whether unnecessarily expending even $1 million because the current wording of the ballot question is supposedly ambiguous is too high of a price to pay.
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