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36. Age Rage is alive and well

People are blaming the elderly for having the audacity to grow old and cost "them" money in pensions, higher health care costs, and higher taxes. I've started to see benefits that used to be given to elderly be reduced (lower movie tickets and bus fares, for instance). As soon as the baby boom generation started hitting retirement age, this is when it seemed to start. I'm at the tail end of that wave and don't expect there will be much benefit to growing old except for dying. I'm fiscally better than many, but there won't be any free-wheeling when I retire, that's for sure. I'm expecting I'll have to sell my house because the property taxes keep going up by 5-7% a year whereas my income has stagnated at maybe 1% a year if I'm lucky. My government pension will be tied to the inflation rate so all these extra fees on everything will soon outpace the pension increases.