Tag: grey vote

• A modest proposal to curtail the political influence of the elderly

  June 4, 2014

  Austerity, Modest proposal, Welfare

  Modern political economies are strongly skewed towards the interests of older people. In the United states, per capita spending on the old via pensions or medicare stood at $26’000, while spending on the young via child benefits or other programs was at less than $12’000 (data for the graph below from here). Pensions in particular Read.