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Originally Posted by buggyone
I was reading recently in The Washington Post that there is now a move being put forward by fiscal conservatives regarding Social Security retirement payments.
The idea is to require a yearly "means test" that will adjust Social Security retirement annually based on other income such as company pensions as well as the amounts of assets a person has in the form of house, car, investments, and other assets.
This would, proponents say, reduce the national debt.
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So, in the future, it will be more of a welfare program? Everyone must pay into it but you only get back what they think you need. Isn't that welfare?