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> Social security is self-funded. It has literally no impact on the deficit or our ability to pay off debt

Technically, yes. Practically, it’s a pair of income and expense streams. Slashing social security payouts to pay for some nonsense is tempting.

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Sure, practically I can also rob people at gunpoint.

Material difference when we’re discussing what a legislative body would and would not do!

My guess is we’ll stick it to Gen X.

Maybe you're right. But then I'll be telling anyone who will listen that they're being sold up the river to finance the military and the wealthy against all reason.

> I'll be telling anyone who will listen that they're being sold up the river to finance the military and the wealthy against all reason.

My cat's incredibly convinced of a global scheme against his caviar budget, that doesn't really cause any consequence.

Ok, but you could say the same thing about people being paranoid about social security bankrupting "us", if "us" indeed has any meaning without a welfare state. Ignorance plagues all quarters of society.

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