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    2 days ago

    Current social security taxes go straight to current social security stuff. Its a paygo system. It used to be something like 15 wage earners per current social security recipient, but as of when I last read up on it, that was down to 3 to 1 and continuing to slide towards the red.

    The first social security recipient paid in like $15 before returning and then collected like $20k or something before dying.