Social Security

[Benton]

(10-18-2018, 11:08 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Meh, why not? It's not like Social Security is going to be there by the time I need it. Might as well put it to SOME good use.

What good use?

Current deficit spending is largely created by maintaining military action against... well, somebody... and not setting aside dollars to pay for it. We had tax cuts and war spending at the same time, which led to massive deficits. 

So, we're going to not pay people the money they've given to the government in good faith that it would be there so that we can blow up mud huts in the Middle East at a cost of about $1.5 million per hut. As a side note, it costs roughly $0 to build a mud hut. Going on a side rant here, but — to date — every taxpayer  in the US has spent at least $24,000 on blowing up mud huts.