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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (69468)	5/2/2018 3:40:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 353863

Social Security benefits are earned. No they aren't. Yes people pay taxes but most recipients pay in less than they take out. Even if that changes in the future (with higher taxes and/or lower benefits to cover the problems with the program) it still wouldn't have been earned. You pay taxes, well you also pay taxes to cover actual welfare as normally defined (just for the poor), corporate welfare (to the extent its actual government payments) etc. Even though the program does tilt towards lower earners, an argument that its not welfare because it isn't just for the poor would be reasonable. But welfare or not it isn't earned. The government forcibly took money from you to give to others, if your receiving it now it forcibly takes money from others to give to you. None of its earned, it just taken and redistributed like any other government transfer program.

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