• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Make no mistake: if you are one of the millions who has paid into this system your whole life, these people are stealing from you.

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      No, don’t ask for that – you’d be playing yourself. They owe you the value of your contributions plus market-rate returns for that whole period (at least 7%, compounded continuously). That’s an absolutely huge difference.

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    They just figured out they can say “we won’t do a thing” and then get elected and then do the exact thing and people somehow will blame the Democrats.

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    Oh man, were just speed running this recommend, aren’t we? It’s weird when people who, fully aware of how the French dealt with this “let them eat cake” bullshit… Actively work to recreate that scenario that didn’t end well for their counter parts

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      This time, they think they have enough of the general populace controlled that they can get away with it. So far, they’ve been proven right every time.

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    Asked if cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be “on the table” for the DOGE Caucus, Lopez replied, “We’re about to find out.”

    Fuck around.

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    Let the old fucks who overwhelmingly voted for this suffer. Maybe they’re still cognizant enough to realize what they did to themselves

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      Nah, they’ll probably increase the age to receive it and reduce payouts starting just after an election so hopefully everyone that gets screwed forgets about it by the next one.

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    Bullshit! The party of face eating leopards explicitly said they would not eat MY face!

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      That’s not how Social Security works, and it never has worked that way.

      SocSec is not a retirement account. It is a program that provides income to people who are retired, and it is funded by payroll withholding from people who have not retired. Prior to SocSec, there was a huge problem with poverty among the elderly, people who were no longer able to work, or not able to work the kind of demanding physical labor they used to. It was then, and is still now, wrong for society to abandon people to poverty when they’re no longer able to work.

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        It should’ve been a retirement account. It would make it solvent forever. Instead it is a system that depends on ever growing population.

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          It should have been a proper entitlement instead of worker funded.

          If we fund it through general taxes instead of payroll, you have the wonderful effect where everyone is covered and the program can never go insolvent. When population dynamics result in a generation of retirees bigger than the current workforce you just need to change tax rates or deficit spend.

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          It already is solvent forever. Every year, it collects money from workers and pays it out to retirees. It can do this forever.

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          It doesn’t depend on an ever growing population. It depends on a certain percentage of people dying before they collect.