Gerontocracy Squeezes Young Taxpayers

A political configuration in which older voters and retirees exercise disproportionate influence to preserve and expand entitlement benefits, shifting rising fiscal costs onto younger, working cohorts. That dynamic creates persistent budget deficits, intergenerational resentment, and pressure on long‑term public finances unless policy rules or explicit sacrifice mechanisms are adopted. — This reframes debates about deficits, entitlements, and demographic change as a coordinated political problem—who rules across age cohorts—rather than just a technocratic budgeting question.