Admit that government-operated retirement plans and social welfare programs are nothing more than armed robbery.
Are you aware that SS/Medicare add up to more than half of federal government spending?
I know ... a bunch of folks are going to screech and holler about how they "paid in" (they didn't) and damn if they aren't going to get their "fair share". Which is zero.
Too many people on the "right" love socialism ... so long as it's THEIR socialism.
Total government spending for 2022:
“SS/Medicare”
If the old folks have no money to pay property taxes, mommy and daddy should plan on FICA/Medicare taxation being replaced by K-12 private school tuition.
Things are not as unfair as some would think.
My parents and their generation paid for my K-12 education.
My parents paid school tax even after my leaving public school, probably enough to cover my and my siblings’ shares of my and their teachers’ pensions.
I’ve paid school taxes for 40 years after college. Adjusted for officially declared government inflation, that’s ~$100,000. Many, many other older Americans have contributed far more than my ~$100,000.
Government social insurance systems pay out heavily at older ages because Americans/Brits would not stick around in the high-priced USA/UK if they didn’t.
I’ll add that if school taxes weren’t imposed, I would have been far more able to risk money in the stock market, which has given huge returns broadly.