>>In short, farm country voted overwhelmingly to unleash a new trade war. And now these same farmers and their political leaders want taxpayers to finance another round of bailouts to protect them from the consequences of their own votes. <<

#JessicaRiedl #TheDispatch #Farmers #Farming #USPol #TradeWar #TradeWars #Bailouts
https://thedispatch.com/article/farmers-bailout-trade-war-trump/

Thanks for the Krugman blog post, @justlistening.

I didn't see that post address the problem that prompted this thread: a substantial portion of #SocialSecurity's costs are the result of mission creep from preventing poverty among people who become unable to work (due to age, ability, etc.) to paying wealthy people to stop working years before they actually need to stop.

In #ScottGolloway's words, #SSA has become "an upgrade from Carnival Cruises to Crystal."

As #JessicaRiedl's points out, *millionaires* can get more SSA than they ever paid in.

Consider the self-described conservatives I know who spent decades complaining about the size of government and the welfare state. As soon as SSA offered them a modest salary to leave the work force, they did so (years before they actually needed to stop working).

So long as current and soon-to-be SSA beneficiaries constitute so much of the voting population, we may never see the collective action needed to actually solve SSA's problem.