What I get is based on what I paid in and is assigned by the Social Security Administration. There is no way I or anyone else can “help myself” to more of your money. If, however, you were earning above the wage cap since 1983, then you have been the beneficiary of our government’s failure to follow the agreement made in 1983, for most of the years since then.
Ridiculous. No provision for automatic increases in the caps was made. Neither were automatic increases in benefits. If BOTH were calculated on the same inflation formula maybe. But just increasing the caps so I get to pay even more is just more stealing from me. The fact that your personal benefit is “ based on “ blah blah is just your way of sending armed agents to steal from me. Not interested. If the caps are raised without an equal benefit increase, any fiction this is not “welfare for old people”, and but some form of income insurance goes away. If its welfare, then I say let it die. Means test the welfare benefit and roll it into the general fund if you are a destitute person young or old you get if not too bad. I’m sick of
” From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” as the organizing principle in our country, even among so called “conservatives”.