as far as the rest of it...
if it is possible for you to do so put yourself in the shoes of someone 50 years old who has also paid in his entire working life and is guaranteed to get nothing from these programs
who watched the people who are saying now “it’s my money” vote for the people who spent their money, which is in actual fact gone
and the only way for them to get their money is for it to be taken from younger people under the blatantly fraudulent pretense that these soon-bankrupt programs will still exist when they need it
my return on SS and Medicare taxes will be zero... and I’m supposed to sympathize with someone who isn’t taking that same total loss, but doesn’t want to concede any changes that will give me a better return than nothing at all?
do y’all have any idea how this looks from the outside of the personal self-interest of boomers angle?
We boomers will die off and the crisis will end. It’s a boomer crisis. A ton of us getting old all together. A peak on the graph.
It’s your money too.