I seriously doubt that the elderly are the ONLY demographic that consumes more benefits than they pay in taxes.
Now that you mention it, I also doubt that they’re consuming more than they’ve paid. Considering how many inflation-adjusted tax dollars America’s retirees have already paid into this system I seriously doubt the assertion.
However, this kind of allegation from the CBO is troubling. I wonder if this is just the tip of a rising tidal wave of hatred that will soon threaten to drown the retiring boomer generation.
America is facing a tectonic shift of demographics, and somehow I doubt that the folks like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, or some of their soul mates over at La Raza, are going to be willing to foot the bill for a decidedly pale elderly America. Given that in the next decade or so a majority of voters in this nation will likely be made up of former minority populations, I can see the politics of entitlement getting very nasty indeed.
I’m suspecting that the next few decades will see a mass vilification of the boomer generation. In between attempts to nationalize private retirement plans, nationalize healthcare, and force the “wealthy” to “pay their fair share”, I can see quite a lot of retired boomers being painted paradoxically as both leeches and unfair hoarders of wealth.
When the government has a vested interest in your remaining assets, when the majority of voters are different in creed, faith and race from yourself, and when your continued existence is seen to be a drain upon others, it won’t be long at all before society will be trying to shuffle you out of this world as quickly as possible.