On the same day the budget CR passed, a bill to raise the Social Security eligibility age to 70 failed.

From when Social Security was new.

A poster from 1935.

The bill was sponsored by Senator Rand Paul and failed 3-93.

Paul, who is part of the gadfly libertarian father/son duo, was probably thinking this would boost SS solvency, which it would, as quite a few people would die before being eligible, and of course, everyone would die before they took their now full eligibility term of years.

That takes us, sort of, to life expectancy.

Notice how its increased, everywhere, over the years.

Notice also how first world nations with the dreaded "socialized medicine" have higher life expectancy than the US.  Not by much, but higher.

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