Honestly a huge part of this "I own my big house free and clear, how is it fair that I have to pay taxes on it *forever*" mindset for boomer seniors is that they are in denial about the fact that they will die and how soon that will happen bsky.app/profile/kill...

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Explaining what’s happening in the US to European colleagues invariably involves explaining the rapture and the tech rapture and then having them look at me like I’m a crazy man.

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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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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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I’m being tongue in cheek here but the oldest parts of the population bring the most politically engaged leads to a lot of sub-optimal results for society

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