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I have a cause: use charitable deductions to save the SSA retirement Trust Fund. The default of Trust Funds is supposed to apex in 2033 due to the increase of birth rates of baby boomers. After 2033, birth rates of later generations flatten and the funds can be solvent.

Social Security is the greatest anti-poverty program in US history. Social Security protects workers, widow(er)s, orphans and disabled people and is a major investment for many of us. Donations can flatten the default curve, extending the apex.

https://www.ssa.gov/agency/donations.html

Why doesn't SSA advertise that donations can flatten the curve and extend the default date beyond 2033?

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Defunding the CDC and many of these other government programs will reduce our life expectancy, so maybe that’s their plan to save SS?

/s = written in sarcasm font… if that wasn’t completely clear

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If you are unable to assist in the means of production in this country you are considered dead weight.

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They need to bring on the Rapture and somehow think they will be the only ones to survive.

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Money can buy salvation in the rapture. All of the billionaires are well aware of that. /S

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Until they decide to "redirect" or "borrow" from that trust fund (or at least try). Though something like that might be what finally wakes up a certain MAGA demographic.

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Actually none of the funds have been loaned despite folkelore to the contrary. The Trust Fund paid about $22 billion to beneficiaries last year. Not a dime from general revenues.

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