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Social Security is a Ponzi scheme

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Amiga, Mar 3, 2025.

  1. Ottomaton

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    Republican plan since at least as long as Ive been alive has been to starve the trust fund by redirecting money that was supposed to be going into it, so they could eventually claim it's broken beyond repair so they can get rid of it. It's a 50 year plan.

    No way they could directly repeal it - too popular. But if you intentionally break it, you can then claim its irreparable and make people think they have no other choice.

    Social Security is too popular to attack directly. You have to create a crisis and make people think.they have to make hard choices if you really want people to accept its absence.
     
  2. HP3

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    He takes more than he gives and its by a vast amount. I dont know who told you trickle down economics was real but its a lie bro.
     
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    Has anybody brought up increasing social security contributions?

    We don’t pay a whole lot, relatively. I think increasing the contribution rate by a 3rd, or even 50% (making it 8 or 9%) and lifting the cap would be reasonable adjustments to secure such an important program.
     
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  4. Amiga

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    Yes
     
  5. Space Ghost

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    I'm not going to apologize for you because you can't understand the significance of his companies. Nobody is telling you must like the man, but don't be childish and dismiss the significance of his companies. You would still be paying Russia to get astronauts to space. Let that sink in. SpaceX is the only game in the US and nobody else is even close. True innovation dies under Democrats rule. They are too dumb to understand so they regulate it away like a bunch of insecure losers.
     
  6. HP3

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    This is single minded thinking. Why care about space when you have people in your own country you need to take care of? Also real astronauts dont even like Musk. Do you have any evidence to support your claims? Why do you suck up to corporations while your fellow man gets screwed over by them? Why do you act like any form of regulation is like...communism, its insane.
     
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    Remember, this meme is undefeated

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    elaborate / describe that "quasi sound money system"; how does that differ with the current one?


    then who got rid of it?
     
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