And governments would be stuck with much bigger bills for Social Security as people lived longer. This reduces the number that will live to collect Social Security or Medicare benefits. The present Social Security system was designed by liberals to be racist, to steal the lifetime investment of black men who cannot collect the benefits they have earned until age 65 or older in a society where the average black man dies at age 64. Perhaps one secret government reason for promoting feminism was to force both a husband and wife to work, one of them working just to pay the average burden of 53 percent direct and hidden taxes on employed families. In the marketplace, when twice as many dollars chase the same loaf of bread, the bread merely winds up costing twice as much as before.
Liberals can no more repeal the law of supply and demand than they can repeal the law of gravity.
If they impose price controls, the supply or quality of goods simply shrinks. If they give away welfare dollars or raise the minimum wage, this merely diminishes the buying power of every dollar others earn. But the longevity gimmick for working couples is that both are required to pay into Social Security at their workplace, but both are not permitted to collect the full benefits for which each would be eligible if single. Married couples are merely permitted to get the larger of what should have been two Social Security checks. This con game theft constitutes another marriage tax penalty on working couples.