That is not the point I was making. My point is people who never paid a dime in FICA tax are given benefit checks. There are millions of old foreign born people in this category living in US and collecting benefits.
“That is not the point I was making. My point is people who never paid a dime in FICA tax are given benefit checks. There are millions of old foreign born people in this category living in US and collecting benefits.”
Same with other forms of welfare...so I don’t get what is special about FICA. Both are taxes and both payout benefits to people that qualify. Sure, we’d like to think we stored our FICA money in Al Gore’s Lockbox, but it doesn’t exist.
In other words, if we paid out the same benefits to foreign-born people, but didn’t say it was FICA, there would be absolutely no difference to this country or anyone’s retirement - we’re bankrupt either way.