All states will experience a profound increase in their elderly populations over the next decade and a half. It doesn’t look to get much easier after that. The data presented below will show that the vast majority of states will have a higher percentage of elderly residents than Florida does today. Many states will simultaneously wrestle with increases in their youth population. The revenue, health care and education implications appear incredibly challenging.

Who will be paying the taxes to maintain public spending on schools, hospitals, courts, jails and roads a decade and a half from now? Many of the working-age taxpayers of 2030 and beyond sit in school classrooms now. Our current set of policies have been setting up middle-aged, working-age taxpayers of 2030 and beyond to fail rather than to succeed in life.