Low births could drive bipartisan tax hikes

America’s falling fertility and rising median age are shrinking the worker base while entitlements swell, and because entitlement cuts, mass immigration, or higher retirement ages are politically fraught, both parties may converge on raising taxes to fund retirees. This is not merely a technical budget problem but a political one: gerontocratic voting power and anti‑immigration sentiment make tax increases the path of least resistance. — If true, this shifts the frame of the immigration/entitlement debate toward shared fiscal tradeoffs and could produce cross‑cutting coalitions for tax increases with major economic and electoral consequences.