[lightman]

today’s youngsters either will have to face a punishing increase in taxes over their working lives to fill this gap OR they will discover that when it gets time for their retirement, Medicare and/or SS will have been slashed drastically (by as much as 40%). Thus, unlike their parents and grandparents, they will have spent a lifetime forced to contribute to a system that won’t be able to take care of them in retirement nearly as generously as the generations that preceded them.

And no small part of this demographic problem was caused by today's youngsters' grandparents who aborted a whole generation.

A conservative estimate of 2 million abortions/year since Roe v. Wade would mean at least 38 million more persons paying into the SS system (19 years, from 1973 to 1992--those now 18 and over).

[DrC]

“at least 38 million more persons paying into the SS system”

I’d love to see a credible analysis of this. There’s no doubt Social Security and Medicare’s fiscal tsunami would not be nearly as large were the number of workers paying into the system increased by one-third. What I don’t know is whether this would completely eradicate all the unfunded liabilities or merely cut them in half etc.