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drxdrg08 t1_j6g5zek wrote on January 30, 2023 at 2:23 AM

Reply to comment by bushwhack227 in Universal Childcare for Pennsylvanians— and everyone in the US by Existing-Papaya-8643

That's not true. Social Security is a re-distributive system.

Lower income people get more benefit out of it than they paid into it. In other words, the system skews payments towards the lower end at the expense of the upper end.