blah blah blah. The fact is that eight percent more people call themselves democrats than republicans. We NEED to rock the independent vote in our favor or we will lose.
We also need to somehow win the hearts and minds of marginal democrats and explain how NO ONE wins in the end with an entitlement culture.
SS is the biggest scam ever. You can potentially invest six percent of your salary for 50 years and then die and receive nothing.
12% - you forget the employer’s half.
Since I’m self employed I pay both halves.
Do you realize that many demonrats call themselves independent because they are ashamed to admit that they are liberals?
“SS is the biggest scam ever.”
But this current generation can’t turn its back on the poor dependents of SS, can it? Touch that rail and you lose the White House. We need a multi-generational exit strategy with UN-taxed pension plans, and that requires a constitutional amendment. Before that, we need a better-educated voter base.
“You can potentially invest six percent of your salary for 50 years and then die and receive nothing.”
You are UNDERstating the case! That is the part that is deducted from your pay if you are a W-2 employee. In reality it is just a bookkeeping scam to make you believe your employer pays the other half. In fact if your employer raised your pay by the amount that he pays and them deducted it all from your paycheck nothing would change. So you have to call it twelve percent to be real and yes, you could pay it for fifty years and if you die and leave no dependents who are able to draw from your account it may as well have all been flushed. Those who live to be ninety or older benefit greatly while those who die relatively young are royally shafted. Such are the ways of socialism. Of course all are screwed by inflation, the method of calculating the CPI has been adjusted to keep down the cost of SS, otherwise it would be dead already. The dollars I draw now are worth about one nickel out of the first dollars I paid in. I was born in 1944 and if we had 1950 prices my wife and I could live on just my SS check, buy a new Ford sedan every two MONTHS, burn the two month old one and STILL have an income to live very well indeed. Our combined income for two years now is more than my father earned in his entire working lifetime and we scrape by.