I share the sentiment that children shouldn't be made to hold up signs like that. However, how much are you going to tax people? Our entitlement programs are structured such that they rob from the future (children) to pay for the past (old people) at a rate of $4 spent per senior to $1 per child. Look at the $500,000 spent in two days to try to save the life of a 95-year-old woman (this was cited in a news article I read but I cannot find the link right now - I will find it, though) and you'll see how we can save money quite quickly - cap spending per year on people above 90, have a higher cap on people above 80, and those who were going to die anyway will do so without lots of expensive and unnecessary procedures. And before you say, "oh, but you wouldn't want this if it were your parent or grandparent," I can tell you that we took my 93-year-old grandmother off her blood pressure medication because she had Alzheimer's and had just been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and some jackass wanted to operate. She died peacefully in her sleep a few weeks later. Quality of life is very important, and the vast majority of the exorbitant costs of our entitlement programs occur in the last year of a senior's life. Cutting back on the "try to save them at all costs" (literally) mentality would probably radically reduce the cost of Medicare and Medicaid.