> Pensioners comprise the biggest creditor in the world. Are you sure you want to tax people who've worked all their lives, saving up money, who are now living off the interest payments?

Yeah, and I say that as someone on the wrong side of forty.

The relative growth in wealth from pensioners to working groups in most Western nations is completely unsustainable, and will end very badly eventually. Trying to flatten the curve now is preferable to the alternatives.