The only thing boomers really did wrong is encourage their children to go to college come hell or high water despite the costs associated with it increasing by 4 times the rate of inflation (which it did so only because of grants and loan guarantees for terrible educational institutions).
>7 out of 10 kids entered the workforce like $30,000 in debt or more and all they got out of school was Socialist propaganda that played off of the financial insecurity the school had put themselves in.
Suddenly it became employers' fault that these people couldn't pay their bills and not the very specific organization that will hypothetically be tithing them for the rest of their lives. How convenient that the schools can continue to charge exorbitant fees thanks to the federal government making it "more affordable" than it'd otherwise be and eliminating risk and competition on the schools' part in the process.
The rest was phenomena that had nothing to do with being for or against taxes (obviously). The american working public was squeezed from all sides by "Sexual liberation" (higher percentage of women entering the workforce than ever before, competing with men), outsourcing (the rise of Dengist China, Vietnam, India etc.) and finally illegal immigrants able to work for cents on the dollar, living barracks-like in stash houses while sending the bulk of their earnings down south where it's worth ten times what it is here, pricing white and black "natives" out of many industries.