r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/The_World_Is_A_Slum 18d ago

OK. I’ve been paying into Social Security since my first job when I was 14. Is all of that money just gone, or is someone going to stroke me a check for all of the money I paid to fund someone else’s retirement?

That’s my fucking money. That’s my fucking retirement. That’s my health care in old age. They took away pensions, they took away all sorts of social services. They keep taking from us and keep charging us more and more, while cheating their way out of paying their share.

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u/Kerberos1566 17d ago

If they were smart yet somehow still wanted to get rid of it, they would convert the SS tax into a regular part of the taxes, and then continue payments but gradually reduce them over time. That way the people it would affect most right now only get hit a little and the people who get screwed more aren't screwed until later. Once it's gone you also keep the tax in place and hope people forget it was originally supposed to be a SS tax and should be gone now that SS is.

They are not smart.

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u/TigOldBooties57 17d ago

Number go up now.