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	Name:	water_watcher -
	Subject:	Socialism Revisited
	Date:	10/29/2008 7:00:53 AM

Social Security and Medicare are definitely socialist programs ... those individuals get far more in benefits funded from higher income people than the little that lower income people contribute in to the funds.

Having them pay less and fund more from higher incomes just expands the socialist view of the program to redistribute the wealth.

Additionally the revenue the government takes in from these programs are not typically consider when the government speaks of taxes. taxes are what is taken in to fund the governement and programs .... while the government borrows from these funds ... they were never suppose to be used as part of the general fund. that is partly why they are in trouble, because had the revenue been invested in the early years when there were more paying in than taking out they would be in better shape.

But Carter also allowed people to draw from the funds (illegal immigrants) that never paid in.

I am sure your point is that Obama will just look at those socialist programs as part of general tax revenue and that is your point how it can be consider a tax cut.

Even at 53 years old ... i would let the government keep everything i paid in if they just let me out now.

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