Winston
Platinum Member
You must be a boomer, like in your example of the retirees paying for children. You sometimes hear the same argument about property taxes, how retirees should not be held responsible for funding the education of the children that live in their community. I mean those retirees have no damn problem with current workers funding their Social Security checks. They got no damn problem with current workers funding their Health care through Medicare. Hell, they bitch and moan about the copay on their prescription drug plan, also funded by current workers.But it’s that family’s decision to have more kids than they can afford. If we keep paying people per kid, they will keep having kids they can’t support.
And I’d be OK with a phase-out, but total cut-off at $75,000. No way should retirees paying taxes on their modest $40,000 incomes have to pitch in to cover the costs of a Dad earning $95,000 while Mom stays home with the 2-year-old.
Those boomers were born before 1965, which means before Medicare. Their grandparents didn't suck off current workers to pay for their healthcare. And when those Boomers were in school. well they collected at least three times the percentage of government spending on themselves that current children are allocated, mostly because those self-absorbed boomers are collecting most of the government spending. I mean these are the same assholes that marched to Woodstock smoking dope and screaming about not going to war, mostly because they didn't want to go. Now, they don't give two shits what the younger generation pays in blood and treasure as long as they get their government check every month.