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It seems more like people are complaining like "my dad bought a house and raised a family on a single income in 1970 and that's impossible now " That's a compl
by googlryas 4y ago
It seems more like people are complaining like "my dad bought a house and raised a family on a single income in 1970 and that's impossible now "
That's a complaint about past vs current conditions not about current conditions favoring the elderly.
- pessimizer 4y agoThe current conditions favoring the elderly were the policy decisions that quintupled the value of those houses. For me the mistake is that the elderly aren't being favored at all, but the wealthy. The elderly are held up as helpless examples of the wealthy that need to be protected. But instead of protecting the elderly by directly taking care of them, which is obviously communism, it's important to protect the elderly by protecting the wealthy in general. Nobody cares about the broke baby boomers. They get to work at McDonald's until they are automated into homelessness.
- bradleyjg 4y agoIt’s getting to the point where it isn’t the boomers but their heirs that will benefit. The least we could do is eliminate the step up basis at death rule …