How is social security in the US at risk of running out of funding, if every tax payer pays into it?
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People are living longer on average, and there are also fewer people having kids for various reasons.
The system was designed with an ever increasing population in mind initially, so that the growing workforce would always feed into the reserves for the aging population. But now the aging population takes more and more from it before they die, meanwhile less is being put in.
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