Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.
...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).
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Increasing the retirement age/pension age is something they are also considering here in Ireland (it was supposed to happen last year, but public reaction was so bad they sat on it) so it's one of the tools governments are trying when struggling with the "pensions timebomb". I think privatising Medicare/Social Security would be a bad idea, as these are huge government programmes and there are enough layers of bureaucracy without having to deal with "which private entity took over my pension and have they gone bust or sold it on to someone?" with privatisation.
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