Posted on 02/07/2016 7:54:04 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
1) We didn't buy into socialist insecurity and the rest of that lot. Money was taken from our paychecks, at gunpoint and without our consent.
2) No good faith was involved. The government has lied about the nature of socialist insecurity and similar programs from the beginning, when Congress first considered them.
3) Yes, a big chunk of our earnings was taken at gunpoint to support these programs, and it has all been spent.
Yes. I am sure you are correct. You obviously share none of the positive attributes of your cohort.
And “someone’s” parents FAILED to teach grammar to your generation.
its not the same thing
In your case you pay half and your employer matches
If you are a sole proprietorship or sole owner of an LLC like me
You pay both halves
Roughly 20,000 year end year out as a self employment tax
Double what a max earner for someone else pays from their pocket
Great Scott!!! I wouldn’t want to be either of those people.
How old are you? Inquiring minds want to know. Are you younger than baby boomer age, or older? It would just help to put things into perspective for us scum-of-the-earth baby boomers.
Charles Ponzi: Imprisoned (federal and state), then deported.
I can think of any number of politicians who deserve prison. Hildebeeste is only the beginning.
I think the pipsqueak writer should note that North America is an Island. If they don't like it on our island, GTFO.
Cry about boomers getting social security and medicare, but we're the first generation to pay into those programs our entire lives. We aren't all rich, by any means. I spent my retirement fund raising kids and grandkids whose parents didn't bother. Selfish? I wouldn't say so.
We're the ones who cleaned up environmental messes going back a couple of centuries, because we were the ones who recognized there was a problem. Nope, not hippies or drug users, but firemen, construction workers, oilfield hands, dockworkers, steel fitters, carpenters, commercial fishermen, farmers, ranchers, scientists and doctors, who at least had the presence of mind to KNOW we stood on the shoulders of giants, who made our progress possible.
So while y'all twitter and facebook how wonderful you are and how bad we are, remember who moved the ball downfield from vacuum tubes to the gadget you hold in your hand.
Ungrateful snots. Maybe we should just burn the books and pull the plug and let you start from scratch.
My lack of positive attributes is undeniable. As wretched as I am, though, the mountebanks, scalawags, and fraudsters known collectively as “sociologists” are far worse. I make things, build things, design things that people actually want. They string together words and numbers into books and articles that don’t even rise to the level of worthlessness. The output of the entire ‘profession’ of sociology has negative value: it is actively damaging to the body politic.
And ...?
Who pays corporate income taxes? The customer, of course. It's just another expense that gets passed on in the price of goods and services.
Who pays payroll taxes? The employee, of course. It's just part of the total cost of hiring him.
The difference between you and me is that you see the cost directly, I only see it if I know where to look.
“These kids are cowards”
I couldn’t figure out if DBD1 is a kid, or a pre-boomer old guy. I guess both generations hate us boomers.
While every generation since and including the one which voted in FDR has been terrible, millenials are the absolute worst. If someone could be so kind as to create a virus which only kills millenials, our nation might have a reasonable chance of surviving past 2050.
A lot of people did “buy in” to the plan.
They thought it would work.
They though it was a good idea.
What I am saying is that people didn’t get onboard with the express intention of fleecing future generations (as the author of the article seems think).
Yes, many people didn’t like it from the get go. But even among those that did, I don’t think they had evil intentions. They were just wrong. The author’s generation is going to have done wrong things too.
They were lied to.
Sounds like your ex-wife, or her new husband is a sociologist! Ha ha.
How about Anthropology?
By the way, I make stuff too. If people did not want it, I would not eat.
Sounds like you’re a sociologist, boy, and you don’t like an honest description of your “profession”.
Either way he's a troll to drop this steaming pile and not have the decency to return and comment.
Actually I am a photographer. And wood carver.
I just like kicking the ant hill once in a while. I don’t think I know any sociologists. Not really sure why you would hate the so. That’s not healthy.
That's nice. I'm an engineer.
And I don't hate sociologists. I hold their "profession" in contempt. There's a difference.
Oohs. An engineer....
A more banal profession could not possibly exist. Probably get together with your buddies and solve problems on your slide rules?
I guess it answers why you act like a condescending ass hole.
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