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After being forced to pay for SS and Medicare for your entire working life, it is unreasonable to expect people to not use them, even if they believe that SS an
by xyzzyz 4y ago
After being forced to pay for SS and Medicare for your entire working life, it is unreasonable to expect people to not use them, even if they believe that SS and Medicare should not exist. This is akin to wealthy professionals, who vote Democrat and support higher taxes, but nevertheless take advantage of all tax deductions available to them. Many such cases. There is nothing hypocritical here: it is pointless to damage yourself by either refusing SS checks or paying more taxes than you’re legally required, even if you are against SS or for higher taxes, because these individual actions will do nothing to bring about the policies you want.
- themitigating 4y ago"This is akin to wealthy professionals, who vote Democrat and support higher taxes, but nevertheless take advantage of all tax deductions available to them" This counter example doesn't work because democrats aren't advocating for these to be changed
- prottog 4y agoNaturally it's risky to assume that all Democrats agree with each other on every single policy position, but if you mean that Democrats aren't asking for more tax deductions, a very recent example of this very thing happening was with trying to roll back the SALT cap imposed by TCJA.
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- themitigating 4y agoWhere's the hypocrisy? Democrats haven't been advocating for that tax to be increased. They were mostly against it when it was voted on