Poll: US boomers support tax hikes on young workers to keep current Social Security checks — the view is overwhelming
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What a terrible poll. It intentionally asks an inflammatory question, taking advantage of a poorly understood issue. What this poll is really showing is that people want to fund social security, and are willing to raise taxes to do so. I bet if they'd asked about taxes on the wealthy, we'd have seen even higher support, but they didn't for some reason...?
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Good points.
A better headline would be “those reliant on social safety net don’t want to lose said safety net.”
I mean, that's what "Social Security" has always been: a suckers' bet that said marks get to pass onto the next generation to do the same for less, ad infinitum.
It's complete bullshit, and 100% a con —always has been.
(Nevermind that this "study" is corrupted AF.)