MAGA Boomer: At your age I paid off college & bought a house w/hard work Millennials: At your age college was 3% of median salary—Now its 20%. A median home was $17K—Now its $363K. The top marginal tax rate was 70%—now its 37%. You worked hard—& then closed the door behind you.
@QasimRashid Yeah & back in the "Boomer era" (1960's) minimum wage was around $1 an hour. Remind me, whats min wage at now? Oh thats right, $15 an hour. Do the math.
@QasimRashid MAGA Boomer focused on essentials, lived within their means, and took out debt they could manage.
@QasimRashid Watch the generational generalizations. Unless you want to be held responsible for every person born within a few years of you. Shall we play that game?
@QasimRashid @doubledworth Bruh where is a median home 363k. That’s probably a place I don’t wanna live
@QasimRashid This was my point. I’m gen X & my eng. degree at U of Illinois was a total of $25k including room & board. I wonder how many people don’t go to college now because they see the costs. The more people who have access to higher education without barriers, the better we all are.
@QasimRashid my boomer mom didn't get it until i did the math for her a few years ago (and my mom's pretty progressive, she was even a bernie delegate in tx in 2016!) x.com/perma_lurker/s…
@QasimRashid my boomer mom didn't get it until i did the math for her a few years ago (and my mom's pretty progressive, she was even a bernie delegate in tx in 2016!) x.com/perma_lurker/s…
@QasimRashid My Boomer sister and her husband put a son through Vanderbilt and he has no debt. Oh by the way dad is a high school custodian and mom is a graphic artist. Not big bucks but they scrimped, saved and lived below their means. And paid it off. Let me tell you they’re pissed
@QasimRashid College was $700 a year. My dad wrote a check for $375 each semester. My first teaching job $14000 and rent was $225. Corporate taxes were higher and that helped pave the way for the rest of us. Reagan changed that in the 80s and the rest is history. GOP....bad for America.
@QasimRashid Had this discussion with a Boomer co-worker. I'm not a huge fan of the giveaway, but I understand why people want it much better than he does.
@QasimRashid Oh please. I’ve been through 3 recessions. I’m not a boomer but gen X. All you millennials do is whine. They did no such thing.