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The people who lived in the NOW are now being supported by US. I just love paying taxes so other people who didn't have the sense to save for reirement can live. Arrrrg, we are getting off the topic. [:D]
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7, if you are talking about Social Security, please blame the politicians who regularly borrow from what is supposed to be a trust fund, in order to finance their "Great Society"-type and other sugar-daddy programs.
The people receiving SS benefits now all were required to pay the same type of taxes that you are paying now, for a mimimum number of quarters over their working lives, or their spouses did.
Personal savings and investments are not the issue if you are talking about their receiving benefits from a government program that you and they are/were reuquired to pay taxes for. If they paid their mandated taxes for the program, why should they not receive the benefits, as you will when it is your turn?
If you are talking about some other program, please be more specific. I hope you are not just parroting something you hear from some slackers who spend their time bitching about generations who sacrificed a lot for the good life younger people have now, compared to the standard of living eked out by people in other countries cranking out Nikes, Dockers and fancy home & personal electronics.
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