In the 30+ years I’ve spent closely following politics, here’s a fresh idea that I can’t say I’ve ever heard before: raise taxes on the Baby Boomers. Our tax code is full of exceptions, loopholes, exemptions, etc. But I can’t say I’ve ever heard of an approach to taxation that punished generations (except for the entire code helping to punish future generations). But since the Baby Boomers created most of the current social and economic messes we enjoy today (along with pretty much everything else that’s wrong), why not let them pick up the tab? Since they’re the ones…

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