The age divide in where Americans think tax dollars should be spent

 
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With the U.S. Midterm Elections coming up, it’s time again to rally your friends and family to fulfill their civic duty at the voting booths on November 4th. Considering the possibility that the Senate will flip parties, this will be a particularly important election to vote in.

Coincidentally, I’ve been working with the UT Energy Poll on their latest poll for the past month, and I’ve had the chance to preview the issues that Americans think are important in this upcoming election. This nationally representative poll asks Americans the question, “Where is it most important for the U.S. government to spend your tax dollars?,” and they’re given 8 options:

Education
Energy
Environment
Health care
Infrastructure development/maintenance
Job creation
Military and defense
Social Security

We then break the answers down by various categories such as gender, political affiliation, level of education, etc. to see where Americans differ — and agree — in opinion. One of the most striking disparities in opinion revealed itself when we looked at the responses by age:

The divide in priorities between young and old Americans couldn’t be clearer: Older Americans overwhelmingly want their tax dollars spent on Social Security, military, and defense, whereas younger millennials prefer to see their tax dollars invested in job creation and education.

This data adds to the pile of data demonstrating the growing divide between millennials and older generations. It seems that the millennial vs. older generation conflict reaches far beyond the working your way through college debate: millennials are tired of war-mongering in foreign countries and want to see those tax dollars invested at home instead, whereas their parents and grandparents are content to maintain the status quo as long as their own retirement is taken care of.

With the tendency for 65+ year olds to turn out to vote far more than younger Americans, this divide could spell serious trouble for millennials who are struggling to find a job and pay off their college debt. Add in the fact that nearly half of the Senate falls into the 65+ age category and it’s really no wonder that millennials feel vastly underrepresented in politics.

Want to change the status quo? Get out to vote on November 4th.


 
 
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Colour me surprised, the baby boomers are only concerned with a comfy retirement and maintaining the USA as Team America: World Police.


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Laughed at education.

Cant tell if serious.


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Laughed at education.

Cant tell if serious.
I think he was just pointing out how ridiculous it was.

"Screw future Americans, I'm going to get mine."


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Further proof that the baby boomers were the worst generation of the last century.


 
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Not even surprised. Baby Boomers are the true entitlement generation. They just go around calling every other generation it in order to hide their own sense of entitlement.


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fucking old people


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Do they understand that if they want a job, they can join the military? Advocating for a much smaller military while demanding job creations is redundant as their ideas are eliminating military careers. It's like wanting entitlements but not wanting to pay taxes


 
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Do they understand that if they want a job, they can join the military? Advocating for a much smaller military while demanding job creations is redundant as their ideas are eliminating military careers. It's like wanting entitlements but not wanting to pay taxes
I think they favour the creation of enough jobs which are - in the first instance - productive which military jobs, to an extent, simply aren't and, in the second instance, numerous enough to offset military job losses.

The idea is to have programmes focused around training and market-supporting structures to create a healthy labour force, not having a job for the sheer sake of it.


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https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
I'd be happy for my tax dollars to go to work in Iraq, Afghanistan and against ISIS.


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https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
I'd be happy for my tax dollars to go to work in Iraq, Afghanistan and against ISIS.
I don't mind, I'm just fairly certain we could have done what needed to be done w/o such an inflated budget.


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Do they understand that if they want a job, they can join the military? Advocating for a much smaller military while demanding job creations is redundant as their ideas are eliminating military careers. It's like wanting entitlements but not wanting to pay taxes
I think they favour the creation of enough jobs which are - in the first instance - productive which military jobs, to an extent, simply aren't and, in the second instance, numerous enough to offset military job losses.

The idea is to have programmes focused around training and market-supporting structures to create a healthy labour force, not having a job for the sheer sake of it.
Military careers are rather productive. People go in at least for 4 years in order to come out with a specialization that can transfer over to the civilian world. Being an air traffic controller in the military will put a person at having a better chance of being a controller for a private airport and make a decent salary. Also military in general is good experience for civilian careers in emergency services

Off-setting the military jobs lost and replace them with new, civilian jobs will be VERY difficult to do; let me run some numbers by real quick

Active duty: 1,369,532
Reserve: 850,880
Unemployment: 11.8% (See U6 for correct number)
Current U.S Population: 316.1 million
Total Unemployed: 37,299,800 (based on the 11.8% figure)


 
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Military careers are rather productive. People go in at least for 4 years in order to come out with a specialization that can transfer over to the civilian world. Being an air traffic controller in the military will put a person at having a better chance of being a controller for a private airport and make a decent salary. Also military in general is good experience for civilian careers in emergency services

Oh yeah, absolutely. The military is a brilliant capacity to develop human capital and, indirectly, secure infrastructural development in the home country which can lead to economic growth. However, at 4pc of GDP, the military's budget is still twice the size it should preferably be and the military has, thus far, failed to modernise and come in line with technological developments.

I don't think any (intelligent) young person is arguing for an immediate reduction in the military budget without some sort of structural and operation reform from within, as well as reform to the civilian social safety net without.


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I'm surprised there isn't a "keep faggots from marrying" option for the old folks.


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Laughed at education.

Cant tell if serious.
I laughed because the old people wanted social security but didn't give a fuck about education and the young people wanted education but didn't give a fuck about social security.
Well they don't see a need for education since they already got theirs. Just as how young people don't care about social security because they have not even reached the age to have it. But not caring about social security is far worse of the two as their could be the possibility of a lack of funds they can use when they get older, so there's a major problem in the decades to come