9 hours, 5 serious HN users replying...and nobody noting that "A Modest Proposal" might flag satire.*

Or that my "proposed" solution, in many ways, describes the current status quo. Tricks like California's Prop. 13 have created enormous gaps between the taxes paid by the old and the young. Warren Buffet has criticized how much lower his own (income) tax rates are than his secretary's rates.

Some days I feel really, really old.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal