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The national debt's 20-year deadline and baby boomers' spending problem - Fortune

The national debt's 20-year deadline and baby boomers' spending problem - Fortune

Kent Smetters, faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, estimates that we spend 6x more on older than young people โ€”ย or actually more like 10x.

Top economist Kent Smetters thinks the U.S. is on a 20year clockand the tilt of the federal budget toward baby boomers is at the center of the story.In a new analysis and in an interview with Fortuneโ€ฆ [+8287 chars]

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