Maine Facing Elderly Boom, with Few Young People to Support Them

[Kingpoleon]

A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Elderly People From Being a Burden to Their Children, Neighbors, or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Publick:

America is fundamentally endangered by a growing average age. We must take a three prong approach of: encouraging immigration of foreigners under 25; encouraging young couples to have more children with tax and economic incentives; and cannibalizing the elderly on a sliding scale, starting at the age of sixty.

[Kingpoleon]

A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Elderly People From Being a Burden to Their Children, Neighbors, or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Publick:

America is fundamentally endangered by a growing average age. We must take a three prong approach of: encouraging immigration of foreigners under 25; encouraging young couples to have more children with tax and economic incentives; and cannibalizing the elderly on a sliding scale, starting at the age of sixty.

Questions:
What are the parameters and critical values on this "sliding scale"?
Who would want to eat them?

Standard diversified lottery draw. We eat 5% of the original number for the first ten years, then make it to where they’ll all be eaten by 104, with 75% gone by age 71.

Nobody. We’ll call it beef/ham/fish/poultry or whatever. They can’t tell the difference.