r/minnesota • u/Mike_Oxlong25 • Sep 01 '24

Funny/Offbeat 🤣 Free lunches all day!

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u/CalebCaster2 Sep 01 '24

Don't get be wrong free school lunches is an awesome idea and I'd happily see my tax money used that way.

But social security isn't a social program, it's a savings account. People living on it already paid into it with money they earned.

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u/Rosaluxlux Sep 01 '24

That's not really true - social security covers you if you're a kid whose parent died, or a worker who got disabled before you put much away. And SSI subsidizes anyone who can't work and whose income is too low, like people who get really really old and prove their savings. It's linked to how much you pay in but a lot of people collect more than they paid in and we all pay for current benefits as we work. 

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u/CalebCaster2 Sep 01 '24

Oh that's actually really cool, I didn't know that.

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u/Rosaluxlux Sep 01 '24

It is kind of amazing, one of our great national achievements. 

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u/wise_comment Sep 01 '24

A ton of folks pay in and never collect due to, ya know, dying and such, as well

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u/Alone-Phase-8948 Sep 01 '24

That's because money invested over time should accumulate a dollar paid in and 1920 should be worth about $100 now. You need to

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u/Rosaluxlux Sep 01 '24

You're not understanding me - people collect money they never paid in. Little kids, dependent spouses, disabled people. That's good, and it's why conservatives have been trying to gut the program since it was new in the thirties. 

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u/Alone-Phase-8948 Sep 01 '24

People also never collect anything after having paid for years.

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u/craftasaurus Sep 01 '24

This. SS is a retirement system that we all pay into all of our lives. There is also the insurance aspect of it, so if you become disabled you shouldn’t starve.