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The point where you lose rationality is when you claim the Repubs are going to let you you spend your own money. The tax break you will not get from them(unless you make more than $100,000 as an individual or 250k as a family) will instead go to corporations making billions in profits and wealthy individuals. The FACT is that trickle down economics is a scam on the proletariat. The very same scam as perpetrated by "preachers" like Paula White and Creflo Dollar. Give me your money and you will be rewarded multiple times over. It's a farce! The only one getting rich is the one collecting the money. Then the human equation with the key denominator of GREED kicks in. Your odds of a substantial return are much better buying a Powerball ticket.

And the reason you will not get your full benefit is that the SS Surplus was raped for decades by both parties to pay for off-budget items (see i.e. Vietnam War). There is nothing inherently wrong with that entitlement that occured for any other reason than theft. You will likely need Medicare. You gripe about it now but someday you will need this. Let's have no services, no taxes, and see how long this country survives.

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