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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I suspect millennials without children in their 50's, 60's and beyond will just rely on their friends as their caretakers, benefactors, and primary emergency contacts for elderly matters. That, or become burdens of the state, which in reality isn't all that bad of an idea with all the taxes you pay over a lifetime.
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I actually suspect it will become a real problem at some point in time. you'll get more childless people in their 70s+ with no living siblings or nieces/nephews... close family relations. Clearly there will be a burden on the state, and I suspect for all of the complaining that childless people do about paying too much in taxes, it will disproportionately hit my kids who I spent 10s of thousands of dollars / year raising to support these people who went through their 30s able to make investments and gallivant around the world on luxury vacations.
I say lets be China, now that the population explosion is under control, instead of taxing parents into poverty, lets tax the childless into poverty.