I love your writing, Bebe, so I hope you won't mind if I say that this comment strikes me as tone-deaf. The next generations are currently being "robbed" by the economic choices of prior and current generations and politicians: education is suffering, tuition is soaring, healthcare costs are rising, incomes for the middle classes have remained stagnant, and now, affordable housing has all but disappeared. Some of this could be addressed with more tax revenue, others with better laws aimed at more equality. I'm not sure which future generations would be "robbed" by taxes: the wealthy who would take home not so many millions? If my middle class taxes rose but my daughter's tuition or my health insurance or my mortgage rate fell, I would not feel I was going backward.

That taxes "rob the next generation" sounds like a slogan that needs some examination.