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this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Never in my life had I considered leaving the US, but last year my wife and I started on our back up plans. We’ve now got irons in the fire elsewhere. If Republicans don’t lose power in the next two years, we will be gone. And, with the US’s global taxation regime, we may have to renounce our citizenship too. The nice thing is you can renounce and still claim your social security in retirement.
Amazing to assume Social Security will still be a thing....
Repeating conservative talking points are we? Doing their job for them?
Edit: you can downvote me but that doesn’t change the fact that you are actually falling for it. Convincing younger generations that social security won’t be there for them is actually a conservative political strategy and part of weakening support for the program and making people pre-accept efforts to kill it. But, here you are downvoting the guy telling you about it instead of the ones spreading conservative talking points.
Stop fucking spreading conservative talking points. It doesn’t make you sound “very smart” or politically-attuned like you think it does. You’re just giving away your power and playing in to the conservative con of making you accept that them taking away your benefits is a forgone conclusion. It’s not. You are owed social security because you paid for it. It’s not a hand out and you shouldn’t live your life expecting or accepting that conservatives are going to take it away from you.
https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/ny-times-op-ed-attempts-to-divide-the-generations-to-undermine-social-security-medicare/
https://www.ncpssm.org/documents/2024-opeds-and-letters/7-myths-that-undermine-social-security/
It’s math. Each new generation funds the previous one. If people are living longer and the birthrates are declining there wont be enough funds to replenish whats being taken out.
If we end up getting SS then great, but expecting it is not smart financial planning
From the above link: