Taxation Without Representation: Redistributing Wealth from the Young to the Aged

A group of liberty-minded young Americans known as Tea Party Youth unveiled a new campaign that, among other goals, is working to stop the federal government from foisting more and more debt onto the backs of future generations. Leaders from the organization even called for a constitutional amendment to stop the schemes, blasting the imposition of the ballooning multi-trillion-dollar burden on America’s youth as being tantamount to “taxation without representation.”

Fighting against what the young Americans call “ageism” — apparently referring to government discrimination based on age — the campaign by the youth-oriented activists is being called “AGEnda 8.” While broadly focused on a number of issues impacting youth, federal borrowing and spending policies are among the chief concerns.