How is social security and Medicare an “entitlement program?” I’ve been paying for that shit for 50 years. I’m OWED that money mfers!!
Entitlement my ass.
“I’ve been paying for that shit for 50 years.”
Many of those years you have been paying for your parents’ SS and Medicare.
What governments basically do is to shift money on an intergenerational as needed basis.
If SS was eliminated, workers would be paying school tuition instead of FICA/SE tax as the old folks couldn’t pay property tax.
Entitlement my ass.
Um, all that "entitlement" means in government-speak is a payment that someone is entitled to receive as a matter of law. That's it. So maybe you should untwist your panties and calm down?
That’s what they want you to think. The truth is the money you paid in went to fund the SS benefits of those already retired. You get essentially an IOU that next working generation will pay your benefits. It’s not your money there have been several federal court decisions that say you have no asset rights to the paid in. It’s a tax like any other with a promise to pay you something later. We now have 2.3-2.8 workers paying in for each worker receiving benefits. In 1940 it was 168 to 1.
Touch my Social Security and I’ll shank you!
All you have done is pay everyone going before you, You and I are not owed a thing.