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by wheaties
4908 days ago
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The boomers are not the ones who got us into this mess. It was actually their parents. They paid for their parents and then expected their children (us) to likewise pay for them. In that time, the average life expectancy and cost to prolong life grew enormously. I do not have hate for the baby boomers. What I have hate for is solutions which foist upon OTHER generations costs and expenses associated with THIS generation. I see that public care is perfect in a perfect world. We are not living in such a dream. Policiticians are elected today. Tomorrow they retire. As such there is very little long term planning because the incentive structure is not there to promote long term thinking. Hence, the ability to actually have a limit or cap would never last. Just look at copyright to see the types of things that could happen. |
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The first generation essentially got something for nothing. That does not sound right to me. If we follow the logic that we've been following, those who didn't pay into the system should not be able to extract back from it.
Perhaps, we the current generation ought to bite the bullet and double tax so we can pay for our parents and ourselves so we don't saddle the next generation with (what some people call) a ticking time bomb.
It is sad that we don't have anyone in the government call out what seems to me the perfect solution: both decreased spending and increased taxes. I guess we just have ourselves to blame for electing people who tell us what we want to hear.