Interesting thought. I'd always figured they just wanted to collect the taxes knowing they'd most likely never have to pay them out thus punting down the road the inevitable problem of insolvency.
What most folks don't know is that the program is already broke. What they take in this quarter goes right out next quarter. There is no 'trust fund'. There never was.
There never will be.
Can't say as I'd be too broken up seeing some Romanian Term Limits applied sometime in the future. God knows the bastards have earned it.
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*Romanian term limits* were pretty harsh for President and Mrs. Ceausescu. Deservedly so....