1. Affordable college: Boomers attended public universities when state governments heavily subsidized tuition. As they became a dominant voting bloc, support for higher education funding declined relative to enrollment and costs, shifting more expenses onto students through tuition and debt.

2. Housing affordability: Boomers purchased homes when prices were substantially lower relative to incomes. Many subsequently supported restrictive zoning, limited housing development, and other policies that protected existing property values while making homeownership more expensive for younger generations.

3. Social Security and Medicare: Boomers benefited from programs funded by earlier generations and have strongly defended retirement benefits. Meanwhile, younger workers face the prospect of higher taxes, later retirement, or reduced future benefits because of demographic changes and insufficient reforms.

4. Taxes and national debt: Boomers benefited from public investments in infrastructure, education, and research. During their peak political influence, voters and policymakers supported tax reductions without corresponding spending reductions, contributing to growing federal debt that future generations must finance.

5. Pensions and retirement security: Many Boomers entered the workforce when traditional employer-funded pensions were more common. Over their working lives, employers increasingly replaced guaranteed pensions with 401(k) plans, transferring investment risk and retirement responsibility to individual workers.

The central criticism: Boomers benefited from an economic system that emphasized public investment, affordable education, accessible housing, and retirement security. Yet during their decades of political influence, many supported policies emphasizing lower taxes, protection of existing assets, and reduced public spending—often shifting costs and financial risks onto younger generations.

Not every Boomer supported this, but the majority did via their direct votes at the local, state, and federal levels....and further by the politicians that they elected. You can argue that corporations made many of these decisions, but it was Boomers at the helm of these corporations that implemented the moves.

Boomers changed the public funding levels.
Boomers voted themselves massive benefits.
Boomers implemented globalization.
Boomers implemented mass immigration.
Boomers ended pensions.
Boomers elected the politicians who ran up the debt.

No matter how you or anyone wants to spin it, there is one group that is responsible for the mess that we have today.