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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (760994)	1/2/2014 9:04:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574267

It may be a burden one is quite able and willing to pay. Some might even say one where that people have an obligation to assume if its needed and they are able to do so. But its still a burden. The word does not imply "unwilling" or "extremely onerous or oppressive". In any case it wasn't I who brought up caring for parents as a burden, you did. "that's precisely the purpose of SS and MC; to keep the elderly out of poverty so they aren't a burden to their kids." Message 29310182 The point is that it does no such thing as long as the kids pay payroll tax. It might make the burden lighter (if you have a single child of low income supporting two parents who otherwise would have nothing), or it might make it heavier (if you have a large number of children or children with high incomes, or maybe one parent still living, who has some savings and/or income), but unless the kids don't pay payroll taxes it doesn't remove the burden.