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Key Issues Uniting Generations

In: Intergenerational Solidarity

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  • Donna M. Butts

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Christopher Buckley’s satire, Boomsday, opens with Gen Xers attacking a gated retirement community in protest of the taxes they must pay to support aging “baby boomers” who do nothing but play golf during their long, leisurely retirement years. Encouraged by blogger Cassandra Devine, a new plan is introduced in Congress to address the growing conflict. Adults 65 and older will be given a package of incentives, including tax breaks and free medical care, if they sign an agreement that they will “voluntarily transition” at age 70. In other words, younger generations would foot the bill for five years of retirement if elders promised to commit suicide at the end of the term of the agreement (Buckley, 2007). The book sparked chuckles, but also some serious discussion about justice between generations. Fortunately, Boomsday is just a novel, but the continuing rhetoric of the press and policy makers can be even more damaging to the age-old compact between generations.

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  • Donna M. Butts, 2010. "Key Issues Uniting Generations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: María Amparo Cruz-Saco & Sergei Zelenev (ed.), Intergenerational Solidarity, chapter 0, pages 83-97, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-11548-4_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230115484_5
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