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Poll: US boomers support tax hikes on young workers to keep current Social Security checks — the view is overwhelming (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What a terrible poll. It intentionally asks an inflammatory question, taking advantage of a poorly understood issue. What this poll is really showing is that people want to fund social security, and are willing to raise taxes to do so. I bet if they'd asked about taxes on the wealthy, we'd have seen even higher support, but they didn't for some reason...?

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[–] logana@lemmychan.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Are there any think tanks that genuinely care about the working class?

From what I've seen, think tanks just exist to create distractions for consumerists.