You’re doing yeoman’s work explaining the situation with SS and Medicare over and over again. It’s an evil part of these systems that people are convinced they’re not what they are.
The really insidious part is that too many people seem to believe that we can make a few tweaks to the programs and keep them essentially the same. Or that somehow the programs were mismanaged rather than understanding that they, like the welfare state, are fatally flawed. It is impossible to fix them without fundamental changes and that is why the Democrat’s demogoging of the issue is so disgraceful.