The United States Social Security system

a. pays benefits in direct accordance to what each individual has paid into the system.
b. has paid the current generation of recipients less in benefits than it paid in payroll taxes.
c. has paid the current generation of recipients more than it paid in payroll taxes.
d. paid the earlier generations more and the current generation less than each paid in payroll taxes.


c

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