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I mean, excuse me for wanting to dismantle social security because I’ll never see a dime from it.


This is ironic. College freshmen said the exact same thing when I started college. In 1978.

Social Security has always been eminently fixable by extremely modest changes in taxation. It is folks with attitudes like the one expressed above who have consistently put off making those changes.


You realize that this is why you wont see a dime from it, right? Because you think you shoild dismantle it? There is no other problem with social security other than people who want to kill it. Its funded by a fucking payroll tax. It isn't going anywhere.


See also: the post office


For better or worse, our economy is based on utter selfishness.


The you will surely understand that others take money away from you while they can.


That's exactly why we can't have nice things...

How about improving it instead of dismantling it?


We need financial literacy taught in high school. Imagine a world where people actually understood the basics of how to build wealth instead of a bunch of blathering financial basket cases complaining about tax money being wasted on the poor.


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