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Old 04-05-2011, 11:54 AM  
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Originally Posted by theking View Post
The retirement age has been raised from 65 to 67 for people within a certain age bracket...and I suspect that when they began tinkering with the system it will go to 70.
With the average male life expectancy now at a high of 75 years, raising the age to collect benefits to 70 really makes you question why one is taxed from the age of 18 on. 50 years of taxes to maybe get 5 years of benefits, what's the point of the whole program?

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