Back in 1965 the life expency was roughly equal to 70 today its around 80 someone is paying for it. www.statista.com/statistics/1...

Ok, Spacebread? That's not how it works. 🙄

Are you suggesting that you're going to commit suicide when you hit 65 or something? You know what would make this cheaper for your wallet - single payor healthcare. We're going to do it, the Fed govt makes it cheaper. Move it to state and local and you're paying more in taxes.

If they did, it would solve a lot of problems and the best part is they would never have to pay taxes again

But again, are you going to unalive yourself at age 65? This would apply to you as well of course. There would be no need for elder care, so even rich people couldn't find drs that specialize in it so they would need to leave the country - probably Canada where it's free, and they live longer.

I doubt I will live that long. I am sure I will die before that due to a lack of access to medical care.

Well, it's a good point but not a good reason to let those who are healthy to die. My Dad is 78, built a 1.5k sq ft deck by himself last summer and he has Alzheimer's. I could be dead before 65 but even with my pretty shitty health, I expect I'll live longer than that.

Take out as much as you put into medicare/social security that's your money. But when you start taking out opm short for other peoples money then it becomes a problem

You let me know when I get my money back from all of the shit that I don't use either. Unless you're ready to roll dead elderly people into a ditch, we're going to take care of these people one way or another and dealing with it at a smaller level just makes it more and more expensive.

You and me both. I dont see the point of paying for Fema its socalism for the South. You don't have to roll old people in ditches just turn off their benefits www.axios.com/2024/10/08/f...

Did you know that a guy in Louisiana died from hypothermia not too far back? Would you have thought to create a program for that? No and that's still a ditch. It costs more money to shut off their programs which we still need to deal with, than it does to use preventative programs that cost less.