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Yeah, it's absolutely terrible that something which benefits the majority of people might actually become an election issue.

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Don't you see the problem here? Few politicians would dare campaign to reduce an established benefit. At what point would reason step in declare the scheme unsustainable? Probably when it's too late and all the productive talent has left the country.

> Few politicians would dare campaign to reduce an established benefit.

Right, because it's not like there's any US party that campaigns against government spending, food stamps and universal health care...

But no politician has been able to reform or touch Social Security, Bush didn't even try until his final presidential year.

Maybe that's because the reform the program requires is a lift on the cap of contributions.

It would be fine to have a constant increase at every election of it keeps up with inflation. I think you're a bit biased based on your feelings of mankind. It could go multiple ways but almost certainly it won't be predicted here.

It could have nothing to do with what one thinks about mankind. When people adopt a system (or a system is forced upon them), people will act rationally within that system.

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