We keep hearing about how the boomers are the wealthiest generation in history, so maybe they can pay for it? Downloading the costs to young workers is not the only option. Maybe boomers estate taxes needs to be a thing we look more seriously at, with a tax free amount, and then progressive taxation rising as the estate value reaches redonculous levels.
They are the ones that pilfered the earth, voted for neverending tax cuts that left these massive structural deficits and privatized our public institutions, and will still get a cushy end to their lives.
I don't see the benefit to passing that down to select descendents while young people who don't have rich boomer relatives shoulder the burden. But maybe I'm just a communist.
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