tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7334408760351487944.post6937134047644697251..comments2023-11-12T06:43:00.060-05:00Comments on Notes on Social Security Reform: Are We Overpaying Grandpa?Andrew G. Biggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617460431856611873noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7334408760351487944.post-2268977823827127662010-02-24T18:50:21.455-05:002010-02-24T18:50:21.455-05:00What percentage of state and local taxation goes t...What percentage of state and local taxation goes to children for public education, SCHIPS, and Medicaid?<br /><br />Grandpas spent a lifetime paying to educate other kids in ways that grew productivity and Real Wages over that period and left those kids and their kids with a much higher material living standard than was even imaginable in the 30s when they were kids and people want to bitch about Backwards Transfers and Intergenerational Inequity?<br /><br />Gosh what did the Greatest Generation ever do for us? And are none of those Greedy Geezers still paying property tax?<br /><br />These arguments are the worst kind of special pleading and terribly cynical. Young people need education, old people need health care, does everything need to balance out to the penny?Bruce Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222670342780912788noreply@blogger.com