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The creation of SS and Medicare is why the debt is so large, entitlements are 2/3rd of the US budget.
#10 | Posted by oneironaut
Social Security and Medicare have reserves. Those reserves haven't been depleted yet. They only add to the US national debt because the reserves were given to other US programs as IOUs.
But Republicans have spent like crazy WHILE cutting taxes to the rich like crazy for the last 45 years. So instead of paying for programs with regular taxes, they've been using Social Security and Medicare funds which they now can't pay back.
How stupid are these Pedo MAGAs?