Why baby boomers' grandchildren will hate them

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56. Yes, yes they will

And I would imagine that the tax rates will go up if we actually get to a fix that prevents the trust funds from going insolvent in 2035 or whatever.

We saved it the last time, somebody else is gonna have to save it this time. Or, you can just let us get by on two-thirds of a Social Security check until we die, as punishment for being a part of such a large cohort. Our size saved the system, too. If you didn't have to share a bedroom with more than one sibling, thank your baby-boomer parents for having the ability and willingness to use birth control, while you damn their generation for not having enough kids to help shoulder the burden of coming FICA tax increases.

I'll admit, I didn't pay it for my whole working life, just when I actually started to make some decent money, that's all. Odd jobs in college really didn't collect that much from me, and the low paying jobs I had until after the 1980-81 recession was over didn't have me contributing terribly much, either. Oh, and we had a hell of a time trying to find good paying work for the first ten years we were out of school, too.