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slowinyesterday at 9:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Not if you're in the US. Social security is ~22% https://govbase.com/blog/where-your-tax-dollars-go


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kasey_junktoday at 12:18 AM

More than 50% of us federal spending is in social security, Medicare and Medicaid and it’s debt service.

You’d have to be counting pretty far afield things to get up to 90% but it’s easy to get to “a majority”.

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