It's not that we don't have great quality of life - we do. It's that we're not going to keep it for long: the baby boomers (the group currently aged ~58-68) are

It's not that we don't have great quality of life - we do. It's that we're not going to keep it for long: the baby boomers (the group currently aged ~58-68) are retiring from high-paying (high tax revenue) jobs with little demand on public services to little or no income and higher demands on public services. There will be decades of lower revenue combined with higher expenses, and we have a history of poor growth.