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Social Security, Ponzi schemes and why the government isn't 'stealing' your money

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Last night’s Republican debate was focused squarely on the economy, on topics ranging from tax reform to income inequality.

That’s an improvement from the previous debate, held two weeks ago, which was also supposed to be about the economy....

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