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How many people fund one person’s Social Security check?

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Jul 29, 2025
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@ChaserX17 Aug 1, 2025
Yet another problem caused by parasitic billionaires
@kontrygrll01amerika54 Aug 1, 2025
The ratio now shrank due to people earning more and so paying more into Social Security than in 1943, it has zero to do with declining birthrates and increased life expectancy. In 1943 people's wages were low, as wages got higher, then less people were needed to pay in to Social Security to cover o…
@RyanRuffer Aug 1, 2025
i like how everyone is talking about how boomers are the ones that are at fault like the birth rate hasnt been declining for years and years..
@jonahmoore5228 Aug 1, 2025
So... yes. But... the federal government is free to make up any shortfalls. So in escence SS will never run out of money.
@NewEnglandWitch Aug 1, 2025
I want this better adjusted to account for the income cap. This number isn’t actually 1:1
@8008fan Aug 1, 2025
Congrats on retirement J.D. Vance
@johnnybgoode8104 Aug 1, 2025
Boomers are about to give one last middle finger to the rest of our generations before kicking off
@raptorhunter5549 Aug 1, 2025
I'm never paying social security especially since they said it'll be out by 2030
@WhatNonSense1 Aug 1, 2025
How many of them are non citizens that could never get it either?
@lantzkeith Aug 1, 2025
Couch Vance. How's it going?
@a_lethe_ion Aug 1, 2025
the side effect of companies reducing full to part time positions too
@eewetter Aug 1, 2025
This is not a true representation of how Social Security is funded. Money does not get transferred directly from workers to beneficiaries. Those dollars are not earmarked for social security benefits. They just go to the government and the government also happens to pay out social security benefits…