Social Security has long been sold to the public on the notion that what a worker will receive back is what he or she pays into the system. For decades, however, the government has been changing the terms of this “agreement” as part of an effort to avoid outright default. Allow those people born in the year 1980 and later to opt out of Social Security if they so desire.
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