And the better response would be to take steps to improve public health in order to reduce the care costs, but that’s too much like hard work, so let’s just raise the retirement age and sweat some taxes out of those who remain healthy for longer.
The proper solution would be to change how we finance retirement and other social costs. It should have been switched to some kind if state owned fund decades ago when this whole debacle first appeared on the far horizon. Countries like Norway do this and after decades of steady investment their fund belongs to the biggest in the whole world.
And the better response would be to take steps to improve public health in order to reduce the care costs, but that’s too much like hard work, so let’s just raise the retirement age and sweat some taxes out of those who remain healthy for longer.
The proper solution would be to change how we finance retirement and other social costs. It should have been switched to some kind if state owned fund decades ago when this whole debacle first appeared on the far horizon. Countries like Norway do this and after decades of steady investment their fund belongs to the biggest in the whole world.