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psudo  ·  3423 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you think of a guaranteed Minimum Income?

The real problem is that it never should have reached the point where a smaller workforce makes the system incredibly unstable. Unfortunately for decades Congress saw it a a bottomless fund and kept borrowing from it, so now all that is in the SS fund is a bunch if IOUs from long dead assholes.

One way to deal with it, that will probably never fly, is actually only paying out to retirees that are below the poverty line without it.