Theme: Incentives

NO SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE CANT INCREASE – OR SURVIVE
—“Social security and welfare could easily do what a “traditional” family (assuming the lone breadwinner is paid enough to thrive in an inflated economy) does if federal and state governments actually invested in those…

NO SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE CANT INCREASE – OR SURVIVE
—“Social security and welfare could easily do what a “traditional” family (assuming the lone breadwinner is paid enough to thrive in an inflated economy) does if federal and state governments actually invested in those programs.”—

That’s simply not true. It’s horrifically NOT true.
Social Security: Roughly 23% of the federal budget.
Medicare: Approximately 15% of the federal budget.
Medicaid: Around 9% of the federal budget.
Welfare: Around 2% of the federal budget.
Adding these together, mandatory programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid consume approximately 49% of the federal budget. (Half of all taxes already go to these programs.)
Add 9% for federal employees and contractors and you’re at 58%.

Now, add that the deficit each year – meaning taxes not collected, and therefore money borrowed by the government – has recently varied from 22% before covid to 47% under covid.

So at the low end, where:
Mandatory Spending: 47% of the total federal budget
Actual Revenue: 78% of the total federal budget
So of the ‘real’ taxes collected, that means at least 60% of federal revenue goes to those categories of mandatory spending

In other words, there is zero chance that these programs will survive into the future given demographic rates of reproduction and the quality “capabilities” of the populations we are immigrating. In other words, dropping our country’s IQ from 100 to 97 is already visible in effects, and we will shortly hit 95, which puts us in a second world instead of first world economy.

We are entering a crisis today as world geoeconomics, geopolitics, and geostrategy equilibrate, ending our western institutional, cultural, scientific, technological, genetic, and demographic advantage.

We will enter yet another crisis quite soon as the delay in reforming the benefits system to RESTORE dependence on the family for our poverty, health, and elder care, directly by the family, or indirectly through taxes on the productivity of the children when they mature.

Because while y’all seem to think the government is rich, it’s not. It’s just another college kid running up credit cards without the job or income to pay them down, and while we can go bankrupt against consumer debt, when it comes to Benefits programs, the debt is to ourselves – so we lose either way.

Cheers