Ok, there are a lot of us Baby Boomers. We're getting old, and our health care is expensive, and most of us didn't have the common decency to make a fortune in corporate raiding or derivatives. I understand that. But if you want us to agree to retirement cuts, how about some real "sharing" of that sacrifice you Serious People keep talking about.
Do any two of the following, and I'll smile while I open that can of Alpo:
- eliminate the carried interest detuction
- place a small, reasonable tax on financial transactions
- tax capital gains at the same rate as earned income
- apply the SS tax to incomes over 110K
- establish a true, British NHS style universal health care system
Or even better, show me how you'll use the money you save to benefit my children and grandchildren, so that they can graduate university without becoming indentured servants.
Until then, spare me the smarmy used-car-salesmanship about "shared" sacrifice.
Sorry to diary and run, have to go tell the kids to get off my lawn.