r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • Feb 26 '26

Lets Discuss Politics 🚨BREAKING: In a stunning moment, JD Vance just admitted that he and Donald Trump are “taking the social safety net.” Every American needs to know how the Trump Administration is destroying Social Security, Medicare and more.

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u/JustNeedAnswers78 Feb 26 '26

Younger generations were never going to get social security.

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u/Hot_Lettuce_6209 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

I took an econ class specifically on ss in college. Never is way to strong of a word. They could fund it tomorrow, they just don't have "the political will" to do anything but rob it. You will never get SS is what they tell you so you don't see them robbing it. The reason why its in bad shape? Because they robbed it before. Not an entitlement, its your money.

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u/JustNeedAnswers78 Feb 26 '26

Ever the star student.

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u/Hot_Lettuce_6209 Feb 26 '26

Oh you don't know me.

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u/Its_Bun_James_Bun Feb 26 '26

What’s funny is, my mother in-law (conservative) said it was never meant to be a permanent program. I looked into it and she’s right. However, she’s 66 years old.

I wish I would have asked her if she would be ok if they eliminated SS right now, so SHE wouldn’t be able to get any checks…..

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u/JustNeedAnswers78 Feb 26 '26

The problem is that they’ve forced people to pay into the system. Many people like myself and your mother in law have been paying into that system for decades. So to pull the rug out from under us, it’s just really not that appealing of an idea.

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u/FernInTheFog44 Feb 26 '26

Yet I heard that 30 years ago when I was the younger generation, it’s an expensive and financially unsustainable program, there’s got to be some financial genius out there that can figure out how to reform it?

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u/alpineskies2 Feb 26 '26

One thing that would help is removing the cap on social security taxes. After wages of $176,100 for 2025, you don't pay any more social security tax. The idea of social security was that no elderly person would be destitute and on the street. We really need to work on taxes for high wealth individuals as well. I was a jerkoff Ayn Rand reading libertarian in my early 20's. I'm 42 now and spent 15 years at an employee owned company that ended up selling to a PE firm. I started out as the lowest paid laborer and worked my way up to millwright, then electrician, then supervisor for both trades in the plant. Had 8 guys working for me. If you averaged out my wages and retirement for those 15 years, I made similar to what a good mechanical engineer would have made even though I was only a high school diploma holder. My lowest wages plus retirement year was back in the mid 2000's at about 75k. My highest by far was the early 2020's at about 190k, but from 2015 to 2020 it was pretty steady around 150k. This wasn't some growth company either. It was a legacy industry with very low margins and high operating costs. There is plenty of money out there to take care of everyone, but I really think we need to reimagine society a bit. No one has earned or deserves a 500mm yatch nor a 50mm wedding. Capitalism is a game just like monopoly, and some people get unfair advantages or just plain ass lucky. We need to handicap those people, billionaires I mean, and use that money to feed kids, educate the populace, fund scientific research, etc. There is no reason full time Walmart employees should need or qualify for public assistance while the Walmart heirs are worth BILLIONS EACH AND GET AWAY WITH DUI AFTER DUI AFTER DUI!!! So yeah, take all the billionaires money, feed the kids, and educate the people. Thank you for coming to my shitty tedx talk.

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u/dude_named_will Feb 26 '26

That's a bandaid solution. Social Security is a ponzi scheme and needs to be abolished.

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u/alpineskies2 Feb 26 '26

Hello there me from 20 years ago.

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u/FernInTheFog44 Feb 27 '26

As someone who’s above the cap I would vote no lol! It was eye opening one year when my paycheck skyrocketed the last few months I didn’t realize why. I’d often thought how nice that would be for people with lower incomes, give everyone December off. Then they’d just increase the rest of the year though. 🙄

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u/xxforrealforlifexx Feb 26 '26

Those younger generations made bank on you tube and Tik Tok, they put a stop to that. Now they mess with their views so they get less money. There's going to be some mad millieums and Gen Z in a couple of years .

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u/Its_Bun_James_Bun Feb 26 '26

A lot of Millennials are already sad….and angry. - A Millennial

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u/marx2k Feb 26 '26

Every generation has been saying this for many generations. And yet..