I’m 62. Just give me back every dime I’ve been forced to pay into this Ponzi scheme and I’ll call it even. And I won’t even charge interest.
Your money is already gone, spent by your parents. The generation in charge now voted for this their entire life. At some point you have to say enough. I’ve been paying in for 20 years knowing my money isn’t in a locked box. It’s been spent by big govt politicians and I don’t expect any of it back and I won’t ask my kids to take on debt to get my money back that my generation continues to support as do the boomers in office.
You see that response here on FR a lot.
Trouble is, it's completely disconnected from any reality. The money they force from us in the name of "social security" is just another tax. The supreme court has ruled on several separate occasions that you have no interest in the money collected from you in social security. If you did, you could pass it on as a part of your estate. You've been lied to by politicians. (surprise!) One would think 'conservatives' would understand that.
At 62 you may get another 10 years of payouts but you are not going to get all the money you paid into this Ponzi scheme as the money will run out.