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The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate

  • Written by David Ingles, Senior Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
imageA famous US article accused a generation of retirees of being greedy. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

In 1988, Henry Fairlie famously wrote an article in The New Republic accompanied by a cover entitled “Greedy Geezers”. The article suggested that the elderly were living too well at the expense of the young.

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