The enormous income gap between workers and executives is a much more relevant factor in the lopsidedness of wealth distribution. The aging population is depicted as carefree, golf-playing, medically fit scammers living off struggling young wage earners. Social Security earnings are based on wages earned in a lifetime. The solution is not to raise the age limit for retirement but to eliminate the maximum taxable income for Social Security, currently $160,200. And to the authors, please stop finding ways to divide the young and the old.

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Persons: Eugene Steuerle, Glenn Kramon, Florence Estes, I’ll Organizations: Security, Social, Social Security, Millionaires, Florence Estes Chicago Locations: U.S