Brilliantly articulated. You said in two sentences what I have been trying to formulate in my head while arguing with friends why public unions should be outlawed. If you don’t mind I am going to used your words in the future.
I don’t believe political ideas are the property of any man. My words in phrasing this idea as imperfect as they are are yours to claim and take as your own.
Although if I could restate them I would have done so a bit more clearly.
The real question is how do we address the evil of inter-generational government debt(including pensions)?
In general the question comes down to either prohibiting debt all together, or transferring the financial debt to the individuals who “voted” to incur it.(IE: Individualizing the debt.)
Both solutions are really very much a like in that both demand a form of taxation increase equal to the amount of excess spending. The real question as always is how to admissible that taxation.
To give everybody a government debt account into which their taxes must go, or to simply mandate Congress never spends more money than they have.