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In reply to the discussion: Question: how would you feel if they raised the minimum age of Social Security or Medicare? [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)It's a way to cut SS benefits without saying you're cutting them.
People aren't going to have their "real" jobs working 35-40 hours a week with insurance at 66. If they have savings, they may be able to hold out for a couple of years to get full retirement benefits.
Like so many American policies, this one is grossly discriminatory toward poor people. People without savings will be forced to take the cut, but nobody really cares about the poor any more.
It isn't even going to save much money - the people who would have gotten 1K a month will wind up getting less and then will get food stamps and so forth to supplement. People are so dumb that they jump at this without even sitting down and figuring out that it won't actually do fiscally what the program is supposed to do.
The whole thing is a farce.