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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  I mean I’m Gen X 2 jobs two kids in a high COL area.  And by the time college becomes affordable, we will have already sacrificed a lot to put our kids through full pay. After paying full freight for daycare. After our students loans are paid off.  After we have paid 20 years or more of high health insurance premiums and huge co-pays and are about to qualify for Medicare.  Everything was so much more expensive for me than it was for my parents. For childcare to housing to healthcare to college.  I need to be saving for retirement.  It would be nice after years of watching every penny to have some discretionary income once my kids are done with college.  It’s hard to swallow higher taxes for zero additional services for me.  And I am tired of being the donut hole everything in a generation that doesn’t matter because it has small numbers.

I want everyone to have access to college. And healthcare. And quality childcare. But I paid $71,000 in federal taxes last year, contribute $40,000 a year to Kid 1’s education, with Kid 2 soon to follow, and none of it is tax deductible, max out my retirement because we had job loss during the recession, pay $800 a month for health insurance, and have over $10,000 out of pocket already this year,  commute 45 minutes each way to live in a house we can afford in a good school district, drive a 7 year old Subaru and am not living in the lap of luxury. I’m contributing what I can.  I can’t afford another $30,000 in taxes so someone else gets their student loan debt wiped out, when we gave up so much so our kids wouldn’t have any.  Maybe that’s selfish. Or, maybe it’s pragmatic. [/quote]

This is right on the money (no pun intended). There are lots of us that likely agree with the progressive dems on lots of issues, but we don’t want to be their ATM.[/quote]

What you aren't factoring in to your personal equation is the money you wouldn't be spending on a number of services because they would be part of your taxes instead of additional line items on your personal budget.[/quote]

For Gen X, which ones?

Not college loans. Paid off.
Not childcare.  Kids are too old
Not paid family leave.  Again— kids too old. 
Not college. Kid 1 will be out and Kid 2 will be done or close
Not healthcare.  I’m not going to come out better than Fed health insurance.  And I will hit Medicare soon anyway.

Boomers are in retirement and paying less in taxes. It’s a wealth shift from Gen X to Millennials.  [/quote]

This!!!!!!!!!!   It is sickening.[/quote]

Not all Gen-Xers had teen pregnancies. Childcare and college is a big concern for many of us who waited to have kids until their 30s+.

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I'm Gen X and still paying off my student loans. I hope I don't need help paying them off - I'm down to just under $34k now - but I would never in a million years wish for coming generations to be saddled with the same financial stress I've had from these loans, which have been with me for going on 20 years now. Ask me why I'm so far behind saving for retirement.[/quote]

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