[Poohbah]

One thing that Claire Wolfe misses: if women leave the workforce in large numbers to take care of aged parents, there will actually be a labor SHORTAGE, even with an economic downturn, and we'll be on the road to recovery pretty quickly as formerly "unemployable" men are suddenly employable.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Another possibility is that when Social Security crashes (currently projected to do so right about when I turn 65), an effort to appease "the masses" by killing the Social Security Payroll tax could be made...

[B4Ranch]

Reinstate a punitive inheritance tax;

The current inheritance tax program ends in 2010, doesn't it?

[mabelkitty]

They will never do that.

They farm out their child rearing, as well as their parent care. Who do you think is complaining about having to pay for their parents' drugs? It ain't Generation X.