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Future generations will have to pay for the deficit in SS and Medicare shortfalls, so voters today don't care.



What happens if they don’t pay? Will the federal government go bankrupt? How much debt is too much and why?


> What happens if they don’t pay?

Workers today relying on those programs in retirement will find them reduced or eliminated.


Couldn’t you have said the same thing 20 years ago?




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