• circuitfarmer
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    5310 hours ago

    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.

  • astrsk
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    4511 hours ago

    Then refund my decades of contributions you fucks.

    • @[email protected]
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      116 hours ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    4511 hours ago

    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.

  • mommykink
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    2910 hours ago

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

    • Drusas
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      109 hours ago

      Old people aren’t the only recipients from social security programs.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 hours ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    3911 hours ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
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      109 hours ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    3212 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 hours ago

    Geez you’d expect the Dems to jump on joining this so they can at least provide some oversight

    • @[email protected]OP
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      26 hours ago

      I would imagine because this blue ribbon committee is going to be full of shit ideas, these Republicans aren’t going to take any feedback in a honest fashion, yeah looking at you Moskowitz, and why in the hell would any Democrat want to give them ammo about the absolutely shit ideas as being bipartisan, again looking at you Moskowitz.

    • Nougat
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      2211 hours ago

      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.

      • @radiohead37
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        411 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          1510 hours ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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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.