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[–] trenace ago 

The article is right, but it's a machine that's been inexorably in motion for a long time.

40 years ago, at some distant-family even I had to attend, I and another guy my age were discussing how Social Security was a Ponzi-scheme ripoff, and some old-bat aunt insisted -- use the worst old crone voice you can imagine, pretty Maxine Waters-like -- "Social Security is a wonderful thing!!"

Yeah, it sure the fuck was, for her generation. They paid virtually zero into it and got $100,000 or more out of it over time.

By now, I've paid probably several hundred thousand into it and won't get shit.

Wealth transfer engine. For a long time.

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[–] quantum1234 ago 

"The vast bulk of all the money paid to individuals will, in fact, go to the middle class, and even the upper middle class, largely through Social Security and Medicare — programs for which even the richest Americans receive benefits. Almost 12 percent of retirees collecting Social Security checks have incomes $100,000 and over, according to the Social Security Administration. A 2011 report by then-Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., found that millionaires were collecting $9 billion in retirement checks from the federal government." So what USA today is complaining about is the middleclass and upper class getting any benefits they paid into for years and years! No doubt they would like to stop benefits according to income....that's BS! another scheme to redistribute wealth!

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[–] docksofthebay [S] ago 

FTA: "In other words, 70 percent of everything the federal government will spend this year will amount to writing checks to benefit individuals. That's up from 28 percent in 1968 and 50 percent in 1991." But again, its Trump's fault.