Archived The government is now a check-writing, wealth-redistribution machine that costs trillions (usatoday.com)
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Archived The government is now a check-writing, wealth-redistribution machine that costs trillions (usatoday.com)
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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.