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4 Reasons to be Pissed Off About Social Security and Medicare

These entitlement programs take money from the young and poor and give to the old and rich.

Jason Keisling and Nick Gillespie | 7.31.2014 9:30 AM

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4 reasons to be pissed off about Social Security and Medicare
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For more on "Generational Warfare" and what to do to about it, go here.


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Wealth

Debt

Poverty rate

Returns on Social Security

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Jason Keisling is a visual content fellow at Reason.

Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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