Social Security isn’t (and never will be) “unjust” unless you dismantle it.
sds:
What I mean here is that it’s unjust for the government to force people to save to a general fund where they will never get back what they put in. I am “saving” into the system so that the retirees have cash today; I will never see any of what I put in. The longer the scheme goes, the less benefit to all involved.
This shows a complete misunderstanding of how the system works.
The only American citizens who could potentially suffer anything “unjust” are the people who are now paying into Social Security, but would never collect on the benefits if “modern conservatives” decided to dismantle the system and “privatize” it. The system would fall apart, and whoever was the last generation to contribute would be the ones left holding the bag.
Sure, the enormous numbers of baby boomers are really gonna tap the Social Security system as they continue to retire. We’re gonna need to figure out how to weather that storm. But the whole privatization movement, if successful, could only lead to two possible outcomes: the “profit free-for-all” that we now see in the health insurance arena, or just a horribly-botched and destroyed system.
