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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Putting socialized medicine aside, which I think sort of works in Canada, due to the taxes, you think I
should pay for your generation's healthcare because of you not being ants, but grasshoppers?
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If you worked since 1965 and paid FICA taxes you paid for a good chunk of the previous generation's health care.
I got my first W2 job in 1965, the first year of Medicare tax, and I immediately started paying for the health care of the retired "greatest generation" who didn't pay a dime into it.
As a Baby Boomer I paid for the health care of our parent's generation while paying for my own health care and raising my kid. Now, after 50 years of paying FICA taxes it's my turn. I held up my part of the social contract and our kids damn well better hold up their end.
If you worked to earn something I don't see how it's admirable not to accept it.