Letter: Argument tests idea of fairness

Friday, March 16, 2001 | 10:13 a.m.

Kudos to Ted Maddox's Feb. 26 letter. At last, someone willing to speak the obvious: Notch babies have already gotten more out of Social Security than they ever put in. Further, the benefits paid to notch babies are a larger proportion of their pre-retirement earnings than nearly all who will come after them -- and far greater than all who are currently working can ever hope to receive from Social Security.

The ridiculous part about all of this is that the "notch babies" are crying about "fair treatment." For some reason, they think getting more from the government than they gave is fair, and that getting more in Social Security benefits than those who will come after them is also fair. What a strange concept of fairness!

TODD KUNIOKA

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