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"harryagain" wrote:


elminate social security and medicare as we know it today.

That is gonna happen eventually no matter who is in charge. The only
difference is timing and extent. SS has a very big unfunded part because
they vastly increased the benefits but only marginally increased the
taxes paying for them (and that is on top of the actuarial concerns
because of people living longer and paying back the 16T "surplus" that
went to Treasury securities.

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