They aren't gonna take our Social Security and Medicare huh?

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1. From the article

"Greszler says Social Security no longer serves its intended purpose of being a social safety net for low-income older adults and is far too large. She supports pursuing privatization, which includes allowing retirees to put their Social Security taxes into a personal investment account.

She also argues for shrinking the program to a point where every retiree would receive the same Social Security benefit so long as they worked the same number of years, which she argues would increase benefits for the bottom one-third of earners. How this would impact middle-class earners is unclear."

It was designed as support for old age living. It now acts more like an annuity, but without the investments behind it. Mega-millionaires can collect the max. I don't think there's a min.

But these proposals are sleight-of-hand for reducing benefits and conveying the program to private enterprise - Republicans on Wall Street - so they can make money and contribute to Republicans!

There are so many taxes no longer being collected it's difficult to understand how the government will fund anything.