Intergenerational Fairness: Will Our Kids Live Better than We Do?

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Page Title:Intergenerational Fairness: Will Our Kids Live Better than We Do? – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Intergenerational Fairness: Will Our Kids Live Better than We Do?
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/intergenerational-fairness-will-our-kids-live-better-we-do/
Published Date:January 24, 2019
Accessed Date:February 9, 2025

Today’s youngest and future generations will face very high net tax burdens: higher than those of any other generations, especially those born from the mid-1950s to the 1990s, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

In Intergenerational Fairness: Will Our Kids Live Better than We Do?, author Parisa Mahboubi uses generational accounting to compare the projected lifetime fiscal burdens of the current and future generations.

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