That’s a hard pass for me. I’d rather opt out of social security. It’s a ponzi scam. If the government had put that into a private account, I’d have millions of dollars in there.

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    I don’t benefit from it. It provides zero value to me

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      Yes, you do. A healthy country benefits all citizens.

      There’s a financial burden we all bare when people can’t afford to live. We’re spared part of that burden through the underprivileged receiving social security

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        No I don’t. It’s just a wealth transfer which doesn’t build wealth. It provides zero benefit to me.

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          You must really like crime, because what you’re advocating for is the worsening of economic outcomes for Americans and therefore crime.

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          Yes, you do. Trickle down economics is a proven disaster that has eroded the middle class. It’s much better for the country to help bring the bottom up than to further increase wealth inequality by further funding the rich with our tax dollars.

          You’re against wealth transfer but you’re proposing another one…this time to the wealthiest people in the country. And you’re fine with that because you get some more scraps out of it.

          I’d be more sympathetic to your plight if you paid your fair share in taxes…but you richer you are, the less you contribute proportionally. You’re not the 1% but your attitude is why there’s so much anger toward the rich.

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            I am not suggesting a wealth transfer. Keeping my own money is not a transfer. Trickle down didn’t hurt the middle class. That’s some weird liberal re-write of history. If that was the issue then why didn’t the democrats fix it? NAFTA and other trades agreements are what destroyed the middle class. When companies could move jobs to China or Mexico , that removed the factory jobs many middle class people depended on.

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              You are suggesting a wealth transfer. Do you think private banks give you 100% of the interest your money makes? Where do you think the extra money goes?

              Democrats didn’t fix it because Democrats can’t fix shit

              And nafta is not the only reason for wealth consolidation. The fact remains that wealthy people largely do not choose to “trickle down” anything. It’s been a massive failure and you’d have to do mental gymnastics to see it as working. Or just be extremely selfish

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                Wealthy people provide capital to build and expand companies. That’s how Tesla was formed. Space x. Amazon. Etc,

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                  Did you seriously just use Tesla and Amazon as examples of good things that wealthy people have done for the country? Jeez, man

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                    Yes. Don’t you support electric cars to help with climate change? Without Elon we wouldn’t have a viable electric car industry. It’s crashed over 100k good paying jobs. That’s trickle down in action.