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Default OT - Betting On Social Security?


"tonyp" wrote in message
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"Robert Sturgeon" wrote

... because it was sold as an insurance program in which one
got back money roughly commensurate with what one paid in.



On average, maybe. Insurance emphatically does _not_ pay you,

individually,
"money roughly commensurate with" your premiums. The whole point of
insurance is that some people get more out of it than they ever paid into
it.


Just like taxes.

Hawke