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Topic: What, If Any, Changes Should Be Made To The US Social Security System?

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Opinion #1
Debater: Argue
Social Security Does NOT Lead to Communism and Fascism
Social Security is a fine way to give money to retired people. It would NOT lead to communism. You don't even know what communism is! In a communist society, wealth is equal with everyone. No one is more or less wealthy. With social security, people's wealth is raised, and therefore, it goes right against communism. Social Security isn't going to cause the government to outlaw burial and marriage. They have absolutely no connection. Furthermore, Fascism and Communism are totally different things. You can't have a "Fascist Communism" or "Fascist Commies" simply because they are entirely different systems. Social Security won't lead to laziness. Whether you have it or not you can't get out of doing work, retired or not. Finally, we have had Social Security for, what, 70 years? And we are anything but a communist society. People are still married and still getting buried.
Opinion #2
Debater: The Wild Goose
Social Security is ultimately self-defeating.
I have already explored Social Security's structural similarity with a pyramid scheme, or "Ponzi Racket". The key difference, of course, is that people are forced to continue paying into Social Security, which in theory should sustain it- any Ponzi scheme can work as long as it has an ever-expanding pool of suckers buying into it.

The problem with this is that the pool of compulsory "suckers" entering Social Security is not expanding, but contracting- fertility rates in most Western nations are plummeting. Interestingly, there is a very strong correlation between increased Social Security payments and decreased fertility rates. The reason, of course, is that Social Security destroys the incentives to have children (see my other arguments and the supporting URL). Eventually, SS will collapse.

To stave off the collapse of the system, many Western nations with Social Security programs are importing huge numbers of immigrants, but this, too, is a short-term fix to a deeper problem
Supporting URL[s]:
http://www.mises.org
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