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Early retirement selfish, unpatriotic (raise taxes to force you to pay taxes longer)
Baltimore Sun ^
| March 26, 2008
| Andrew L. Yarrow
Posted on 03/27/2008 10:54:24 AM PDT by sickoflibs
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I guess more of your SS benefits would go to No Child Left Behind and Hillary/Obama fee Health Care (for illegals) unless you kept working and paying taxes on job salary for same purpose.
I hated it when Reagan and Clinton raised income taxes on social security benefits to pay for the general budget, It's no better than the phony I OWE YOUs they wrote themselves while spending the SS taxes. Notice they wont call for just cutting the benefits, that would show it's just a welfare ripoff scheme. By taxing SS benefits the people who paid no income taxes (but paid minimum SS taxes ) dont get a cut in SS benefits because they make under the income limit once gain.
To: sickoflibs
Not surprised that it comes from that rag the Baltimore Sun, but here’s an idea...
SUCK A LEMON!
To: sickoflibs
But there's just something - make that lots of things - wrong, in general, with retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic. Take a flying leap off the nearest skyscraper, Yarrow. I'm retiring the day I turn 62, and I'd retire sooner if your beloved liberals weren't stealing so much of my income. You are not entitled to my labor, and I am not morally obligated to work to support your socialist nanny state.
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posted on
03/27/2008 10:58:19 AM PDT
by
American Quilter
(Vote Democrat--It's Easier Than Thinking)
To: sickoflibs
I plan on working as long as someone will pay me.
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posted on
03/27/2008 10:59:10 AM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: sickoflibs
I’ll tell you what, Andy, you work until you fall over dead from old age, while I retire and cruise around the country in my geezer RV.
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posted on
03/27/2008 10:59:53 AM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: sickoflibs
Andrew L. Yarrow Seems to think the problem with government is not enough revenue.
WRONG!! It's too much spending. Bush and his liberal Republican cronies have been spending our, our childrens' money and their subsequent generations' money at a rate that would embarrass Bill Clinton.
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posted on
03/27/2008 10:59:57 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: American Quilter
“....You are not entitled to my labor, and I am not morally obligated to work to support your socialist nanny state....”
Double - Bingo
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:00:18 AM PDT
by
Former MSM Viewer
("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." W 2001)
To: sickoflibs
retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic. Thank goodness that doesn't include me, I retired at 54.
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:01:23 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: American Quilter
If I could have invested all the money taken from me for Social Security, I could retire right now (and I'm not 50 yet). I've worked quite enough for everyone else already!!!!
To: sickoflibs
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Ironically the next topic in the thread is, GPO profits go to bonuses and trips. Yeah let's work longer to support our government. What is this? Feudalism?
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:02:40 AM PDT
by
dblshot
To: sickoflibs
This government has taken thousands of dollars from my husband and myself by force of law. I plan to retire at 65 and get some of it back. I told this idiot columnist the same thing.
Carolyn
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:03:03 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I will retire as soon as I can without counting on SS and play golf and with grandkids. Call me unpatriotic but the framers did not intend for me to pay for someone else’s retirement.
To: sickoflibs
Yeah, people should work longer so they can pay more taxes to help fund other people. If someone decides they can retire at 30 and they don’t expect anybody else to support them, what business is it of mine?
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:03:32 AM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: American Quilter
I love your response. Did you go to their website and send it to the author? I did, but mine wasn't as good as yours.
Carolyn
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:03:47 AM PDT
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: sickoflibs
This alone would cut the projected deficit in 2045 by 159 percent.Another mathematical illiterate with a journalism degree.
To: sickoflibs
Apparently he doesn’t understand how many days a year we all work for the government. Its into May now isn’t it? I just retired in January at age 62 and I have one response for this idiot - BMA!!!
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:06:48 AM PDT
by
Humvee
(Beliefs are more powerful than facts - Paulus Atreides)
To: sickoflibs
“To encourage such behavior, Social Security benefits taken before age 66 or 70 could be more highly taxed,”....
Kiss my rosy red ass!....Who were the village idiots who got us into this mess?....Maybe the politicians who got us here should all get 9 to 5 jobs til they turn 90!
To: sickoflibs
this guy is a socialist moron...just because I started saving for retirement when i was 21, and put together enough money to retire at 52, I am unpatriotic!!!!!!!! This guy can Bl@w me big time......
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:09:11 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(Screw McPain....J. Fred Muggs for POTUS)
To: sickoflibs
The next step is euthanasia of the elderly. “It is selfish and unpatriotic to consume government funds, when they could be going to children or health care or [fill in the blank]. You are no longer productive, and it's unpatriotic to consume more than you produce. (cough-unless you're one of a number of special minority groups, then it's expected you won't produce, as you're a victim-cough)”
One small step, folks...
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posted on
03/27/2008 11:11:53 AM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(Forget "Who is John Galt?" I want to know "Where is Galt's Gulch?")
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