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You can, however, say that going forward, people will pay into basic income instead of social security; and that no one born after [policy-change date] will receive social security in the future (since they never paid into it.)



Possible in theory. But then you have to explain to people why they are paying the same amount of tax as people one year older than them, but will still receive a lot less when they retire.


That's coming anyway.

For the record, you have zero ownership rights in your SS benefits. They can be changed at will.


It needn't be a sharp cutoff.




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