Social Security is not the Ponzi scheme some oppositions may advocate. Social insurance, as envisaged by President Roosevelt, would address the permanent problem of economic security for the elder community by creating a work-related, contributory system in which workers would provide for their own future economic security through taxes they paid while employed. It provided an alternative both to reliance on welfare, and to radical changes within the capitalist system. It can be seen as a moderately conservative, yet activist, response to the challenges of the Depression (SSA, 2014). Social Security, has now became a principal component of modern life. One in seven Americans receives a Social Security benefit, and more than 90 percent of all workers are in jobs covered by Social Security (SSA, 2014). It is the drastic change in the ratio of covered workers to beneficiaries that has social security in dire need of reform. Accusations that the Social Security program is a Ponzi Scheme is a hoax, the program itself has maintained goals of adequacy, equity and efficiency. Would a private company be able to institute a retirement insurance program legal and have the equivalence of Social Security? Furthermore, imminent planning to offset the beneficiary ratio needs to be implemented.
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A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often select new investors by promising to invest funds in opportunities claimed to generate high returns with little to no risk. The fraudulent schemes cannot sustain themselves when new sources of funds dry up, when the insiders plunder and exhaust funds on hand, or when marke...
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...Social Security, its level of equality does not subside to that of a Ponzi scheme. People who have put in less amounts are still distributed funds from within the Social Security program. Social Security is actually what it says it is. Based on the research provided it is clear that Social Security is not and was never intended to be a Ponzi scheme.
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