The problem boils down to money, but I am assuming you are looking for the causes of the problem.
<span>1. Social Security was never indexed correctly to accommodate the growing life expectancy on those drawing on it. The age at which you can collect should have changed in concert with the life expectancy of the population, or the amount of the benefits should have been decreased if they wanted to keep the age at which you receive it from keeping pace with lefe expectancy. </span>
<span>2. The growth in income inequality has led to vast amounts of money being earned by fewer people and the tax on social security has a limit so any income over the limit is not subject to the tax. Right now that cap is around 109k/year...so someone making 125k/year pays the same amount into social security as someone making 10 million a year. As more wealth is concentrated with fewer people, even vast increases in income and/or wealth yields little increase to the amount collected via the SS tax. </span>
<span>3. Not necessarily on the scale as 1 and 2 above but fraud is also a cause of the monetary shortfall. There are those that cheat the system. Every so often you will hear stories of people getting caught in social security fraud rings where they collect either through identity theft or other criminal means. You also have people that will collect when a relative passes away. They will purposely not report the death or provide invalid SS information so they will continue to receive the deceased person's benefits long after they have died. </span>
<span>As far as a solution, you are stuck with the eventuality of either decreasing benefits, raising the retirement age, or increasing the amount of taxes collected...none of which are likely to fly in Congress. Programs like SS rely on growing the base of people from which you are collecting, but at some point this does not happen. Population growth is not automatic and even with population growth, the concentration of income at the top percent of people offsets any such growth. It may be considered a very progressive/liberal thought, but eliminating the cap on income from which SS tax is collected would help. You can still keep the cap on SS benefits meaning the people at the top of the income ladder would be paying far more than they would get out of it in 10 lifetimes...but this would neutralize the income inequality impact on the system. To be honest, if there was an easy solution, we would have done it by now.</span>
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What is the question exactly?
The Judicial Branch was created in Article III of the Constitution. C is the correct answer.
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If George is an utilitarian thinker he should focus on what the possible outcomes of the situation might be if it turns out the player wasn't cheating.
Explanation:
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. This theory says that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
However, since we cannot predict the future, it is difficult to be certain of what the consequences of our actions will be.
In the example, if George is an utilitarian thinker, he will focus on outcomes. It <u>appeared to him that the other player took a card from his lap and switched it with a card that he was dealt,</u> however, <u>he cannot be sure</u> if the player is indeed cheating.
As an utilitarian thinker, George should focus on what the possible outcomes of the situation might be if it turns out the player wasn't cheating.
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unconscious
Explanation:
Freud came to conclude that most of the behavior is driven by forces that are way out of our control and that they can be reduced to life (eros) or dead (Thanatos) drives- These forces are strong components that can shape our decisions and are seen in a metaphor:
The unconscious is the hidden part of the iceberg where we are just barely conscious of the surface while the hidden mental processes can be traced back to childhood experiences mostly. At least according to what Freud came to conclude, the unconscious mind is mainly a deposit of sex and destructive or aggressive drives that are impossible to express at the moment of being.
They are continually either repressed or rationalized as the main mechanisms the ego has for balancing inner needs with the outer world
