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Someone will have to pay for this and it will be down the road in Social Security cuts and/or increased payroll taxes. Look at what happened in Italy over the weekend to tell you what the government will do. There will no more money for working people to give to save Social Security, therefore cuts to benefits will be the only solution.

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“There will no more money for working people to give to save Social Security, therefore cuts to benefits will be the only solution.”

The math makes this certain. The question is will the benefits be cut enough, and soon enough to keep them from being cut off for everybody.

Socialism, no matter what its form, and no matter where in the world is failing. The simple calculus that someone has to make the money that is given to someone else eludes large numbers of people, including many on this site.