End Social Security. Don’t phase it out. Don’t privatize it. End it. Stop collecting the taxes. Stop sending the checks. It’s unconstitutional. It’s a crime against the rule of law and liberty.
It was designed as a scam from the very beginning, since the age of eligibility was the same as the average life expectancy at the time it was passed.
Not so fast, professor. I can collect in a little over a year. I owned my own business for the last 40 years so I paid both the employee and employer portion.
I made a deal with the government 48 years ago ( not by choice). They would take money out of my paycheck every week and give some back when I retired. I did my part, they will do theirs.
It’s not a handout, it is an entitlement. I am entitled to the money BECAUSE IT IS MINE. They just borrowed it interest free for decades.
“End Social Security.”
Sounds like the pre-Trump GOP talking, the party that wrote off the blue collar whites of the the Rust Belt. Yup, let them retire into poverty.
There will be a great additional cost if this is done, the cost of reestablishing older people in other programs so they don’t starve to death or die of exposure. Probably cheaper to just keep it. The payments are minuscule anyway.
“End Social Security. Don’t phase it out. Don’t privatize it. End it. Stop collecting the taxes. “
That is fine, just send me back all the (my) money I was forced to pay over my lifetime with interest.
So, what’s your plan on keeping all
those dependent on the program from
being homeless, and sleeping in the
streets? It’s all they have in some
cases. Can you afford to feed, house,
and care for your aging mom? Would
you even be willing to take on the
task? It’s their money that they paid
(involuntarily) into the system.
If you’re going to be unhappy
about social security, be unhappy
that those who did not work and
contribute their share, reap it’s
benefits.
I disagree. I paid into SS for forty years. I am now unable to work and receiving the benefits I already paid for. I will never get back even 5% of what I put in, but I need the payments now. They are not entitlements .
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