Subsidizing Millionaires?

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Submitted by JamesB_BKK (Thailand), Jan 25, 2012 02:02

These - SS, Medicaire - are insurance schemes when we are told we must have them, but funded by taxes when analyzing tax liabilities across income groups under our so-called progressive tax regime. If they be insurance, means testing is cheating policy holders. If they be tax-funded and revocable, let us call them welfare.

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