Boomers overwhelmingly say in polls that young people should be taxed more to pay for their social security. Social security is going bankrupt because it is a ponzi scheme misleadingly marketed to the missionary generation as if it were some sort of retirement account, and successively marketed to each generation through the boomers this way. Just because a ponzi scheme goes broke doesn’t make the people caught with the bag entitled to sell it to the next generation of victims. Hold the people who created it reputationally responsible and the people who perpetuated it financially responsible. Blame congress for spending it away. Blame the fed for backing up the right of banks to make money out of thin air. If boomers want to tax young people to pay for it, a fair trade would be that we a) tank the housing market by removing its artificial support (for example Fed could sell its mortgage-backed securities) b) subsidize home loans for everyone under 30 so they can buy them on the cheap c) put a property tax on homes bought with subsidized loans that is used to pay boomer social security This would be especially fair because it wouldn’t artificially tank the housing market, it would just stop artificially propping it up; only boomers who own homes would be hurt but poor boomers would be unaffected; poor boomers would even have a chance to get a home on the cheap if they had good credit; and the extra taxes would only go on young people who took advantage of the subsidy. However, inter-generational battles are a distraction from congress, the fed, the banks, and the regulatory state. Boomers have much more wealth than younger generations and young people can’t afford to pay their bills. That’s not because boomers made so much better choices than young people. It’s because money printing and public debt steals from the future. Each generation gets worse off as the bills of the past come due on those in the future. Boomers got houses that the government artificially made massively increase in value. Young people are now priced out of the market. The regulatory state and subsidized college loans let boomers become university presidents making corporate CEO salaries and gave admin jobs to lower-paid boomers while the cost of education went to the moon and young people got saddled with debt. Boomers took a blind eye to what their rulers were doing just like the missionary generation, the lost generation, the greatest generation, and the silent generation before them, and just like generation X and millennials have done after them and Z and alpha are doing so far. Blame the spenders and the printers — congress, the fed, and the banks — not the older or younger generations. Sue the ponzi for damages, don’t pass it on to the next sucker. Bind together against the people who screwed us and start with the spender and the printers.