Boomers spent their peak earning years demanding lower income taxes now spending retirement years demanding no property taxes — that puts a very large burden on the income-earning generation squeezed between their kids and declining parents.

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Can’t make the intergenerational compact work with declining birthrates and seniors going fully antisocial.

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“I should only pay taxes for things I use” is a fun precept to adopt after you’ve stopped using services that were funded by the full tax base — you would have needed to pay much much more when your kids were in school if seniors hadn’t been pitching in with property taxes back then!

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It’s a BAD night in Saint Petersburg. A major data center in town is in flames, and there have been large explosions at the city’s port as well. From Ukraine with love. 🇺🇦

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It was such a slap in the face,” says one HarperCollins employee. “We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software that most of us don’t really want.”

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