I'm getting ready for work, but I will read this. Got through the opening, but problem is the 'working workforce.'
Since about 1975 or so the % of earnings taken by SSI and other fed and state taxes have been increasing at higher and higher rates, but not nearly as quickly as the expansion of benefits and rising costs of Medicare. Certainly the parents of baby boomers benefitted greatly, the money they collected in their later years, which were for far longer than anticipated when they were in their teens and began working after the war. Many of them didn't start paying into SSI until late 30s or even 40s.
Here and there folks have mentioned the looting of the pension fund, which never should have happened. It did. Sort of the same as investing your own money in a Ponzi scheme and losing it all, I guess that would be worse, but by degree. The government forces the taking, as is the very nature of government. Being duped by one's own bad decisions, to me is certainly not good, but I made the choice if caught up in such. The government hasn't the right to pull such on the citizens, but has done worse. Spending the money with no attempt to truly have it grow over time. Robbing not just the workers, but the future generations while continuing to take.
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Gunny mentioned that the young shouldn't be blaming the 'boomers' but the government. They are, they are rejecting the government, they want change more than the most virulent Trump supporters.