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Isnt this likely true in all aging social democracies? “Steal” seems extreme. A rebalance is warranted, but this is a function of aging populations, better medicine helping us live longer, and declining birth rates. Those forces are not easily mitigated by new youth focused social policies.

It's still my money. I paid it in, now I get it back. Legally the federal government owes it to me. More than your trust fund is yours.

One small thing I’m grateful for in life is how quickly idiots reveal themselves to be idiots. 1. Not a Republican 2. Already have a job 3. Don’t believe and have not implied that any individual person bears the responsibility for government policy

It’s not your money. That was spent years ago

This!!!!

He also knows that we are subsidizing public colleges well below where we did when our current seniors were in college. That we have higher deficits. That we see less gov investment in our infrastructure than when our seniors were in school. Scott is pointing out that out govt needs to work for all

100 percent Scott’s take is BS

Do you need it? Because that’s what’s going to be the question for younger generations. There won’t be enough money to pay everyone who paid in. So if you’re a retiree that doesn’t need it to survive, you’re getting a benefit I won’t.

The money you paid in went to old people back then. If your generation had voted to maintain taxes there would be plenty now but you all wanted to “keep your money from the gvmt” by starving younger generations. So here we are.

Posts like this have young people DREAMING of throwing 80 y/o widows into the river, blaming them for everything, when meanwhile guys like Bezos pay zero taxes and have a 100,000 cap on social security contributions ... I'm positively ashamed of Galloway for posting this.

It's about the MISMANAGEMENT of medicare and social security. Big difference.

Old middle class people, who worked our whole lives seeing 24% of salaries disappear for state and federal taxes, can’t even afford to retire. We are not stealing as a generation! I am still working at 73 years OLD. My Social Security would not be enough. Consider rethinking your statement?

This is so offensive. We’re giving away billions to other countries, feeding an ever more ravenous military industrial complex for the purpose of war profiteering and cutting services to everyone. Trump is stripping the country and selling it for parts. How convenient to blame older folks.

Universal basic income income and land value taxes.

The more taxes and regulations you introduce, the greater is the divide between the rich and the poor. Living in Europe for so long, you should have known that

I am 72! Terrified of my future!

you can claim i have it good all day long. I have to pay almost $1000/month for medicare part b. I chose not to have it because it is too damned expensive. YOu may think you are the only ones being squeezed, but you are wrong

and i did the same when i was young and my parents were getting very lucrative payouts for medical, along with ssi and va benefits and when i was 30, i said the same thing you are saying now

Thanks!

For shame! Younger generations benefit also from what seniors receive - money not needed to come out of their own pockets to provide for their parents! A fairer SS contribution schedule (like the wealthy paying the SAME percentage as working people) would guarantee solvency and benefits for all!

Who put in the work and paid into the system that made the promise that one would be taken care of in their latter years. Young people usually have parents to finance their lifestyle and hopefully they the young people have a plan for 5-10 years down the road and for retirement.

Sometimes you get it so wrong. What money are old people voting for themselves? Medicare is income adjusted, the so-called tax free Social Security is a temporary and oversold joke, we are subsidizing our kids and our parents - sheesh.

Check out my series on tax fairness

Ok, I’m all for fighting for it and trying to get tax dollars spent on people who need them. But the point I’m making is that your generation doesn’t have to have that fight to get your benefits.

You should be calling out the goverrnment that spent the Social Security funds not retirees who paid in and were promised benefits.

Speak for yourself Scott-some of us worked our asses off for 30+ yrs to stay in the middle class

Scott, the vast, vast majority of retirees are poor and living off of social security.

Or maybe that distribution has to do with programs we pay into all our working lives, and can only access in our 60s… not stealing.

And yes, I did read the article, it's your interpretation I disagree with.

You should check out my Substsck

To quote the west wing- elections are won by those who show up... everyone votes out of some level of self-interest

You should check out my work on substack. Starting a deep dive on tax fairness

It's also younger people not voting. Not voting isn't a penalty or enforced constraint (yet); it's a choice. To paraphrase an older idea: every democracy that chooses not to exercise its right to vote has the government it deserves.

I am starting a series on substack on tax fairness. Check it out.

My Boomer dad passed from cancer. His medical bills were in the millions. Medicare covered it all. He never payed into the system anything near what he ultimately took out. He was a RW racist who bitched about the government "giving money to illegals" and of course he voted for Trump.

So you took nothing out in the last 50 years?

WTF Scott??

I am starting a series on my Substack on tax fairness.

I am 70+ and can assure you that a huge chuck of the senior population, especially single/divorced/never married women, are living on social security alone & struggling mightily. Note that the fastest growing segment of the homeless are 55+.

Easy to say, when you have $100,000,000.

People seem to be voting for this, or at least not choosing to vote for something else. IMO the bigger problem is that there is no constituency in US politics for responsible budgeting. We all seem to think that our debt can just keep growing.

Facts. Well said.

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that too shall pass

You and WaPo can go get . Come and walk a mile in my life.

Scott, for the first time, I disagree with you. I didn't expect such a lack of empathy for the old people.

Well yeah, that combined with less immigration doesn't bode well for this country.

*1978

Boomer here calling out BS.

That will be resolved shortly.

I'm old. I'm not stealing anything. I'm getting back what I paid into for 50+ years. Scott you are wrong.