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To: slumber1

Except that the life expectancy for women is higher than men, and the life expectancy of minorities is usually less than whites. And single people have a lower life expectancy and on average lower incomes than married couples. And lower income people have lower life expectancy than the middle class and wealthy.

So while overall your proposal is theoretically revenue neutral, in practice it exacerbates what is already a wealth transfer from lower income males and minorities to middle class and wealthy white women.

Being married to a white woman and having studiously pursued a career that does not contribute to social security until I achieved financial independence, I’m OK with this. I don’t have any illusions that Social Security will ever be moral or fair, because in the end it’s just theft coupled with a biased welfare program.


49 posted on 08/21/2015 11:43:07 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
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To: Go_Raiders
Except that the life expectancy for women is higher than men, and the life expectancy of minorities is usually less than whites.

All that is true but when SS began there were so few women in the workforce that their slightly longer lifespans were statistically irrelevant. In 1935 the US workforce was overwhelmingly white males. My point was not that it was revenue neutral. My point is that it's always been a government scam. They set it up to take money from you and your employer all your working life without ever having to pay back any significant portion of it. At least that's how it was supposed to work and that's why there never was a true SS trust fund.
60 posted on 08/21/2015 4:23:58 PM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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