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As I keep telling you: old people are living too long and stealing my money to do it

January 31, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Reason:

As transfer payments to elderly Americans — irrespective of wealth or need — increase in absolute and relative terms, de Rugy argues that we should scrap entitlements and replace them instead with a “social safety net” that helps poor Americans of whatever age. “There’s absolutely no reason to continue paying for lots of people who have accumulated wealth their entire lives,” de Rugy tells Reason’s Nick Gillespie.

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