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re: Social Security as welfare
Tom Brosz — (archived)

I think if you look through the posts, I am discussing (as reasonably as I can) the various options being floated by you and others.

However, to overlook the raw political implications of this, which often outweighs other considerations in Washington, is to overlook the real battle.

I think if everyone can finally admit to themselves that Social Security is a welfare program to protect the poor and unlucky among the elderly, we can move on to treating it like one, introducing means testing for benefits, and other such things.

I have learned to live with most of my taxes simply ending up in someone else's pocket instead of imagining that they are being "stored away" for my retirement or somehow returned to me for my benefit. I can live with my Social Security tax doing the same thing.

Might be a good idea not to use the loaded word "welfare," But the government should have no problem coming up with yet another euphemism for wealth redistribution.

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