“I pay ALL of it with my labor.”
No. The employers revenue pays all of it, without which you’d have no job.
The employer revenue results from the combined labor of EACH employee. Each employee comes at a cost to the employer which includes paying 50% of THAT employees social security obligation to the government. This arrangement helps to hide from the employee the true amount of social security taxes being stolen from HIS labor contribution to the employer. It is a dishonest system that needs to end. To end this, legislation needs to be passed that requires showing the TOTAL amount of social security taxes his labor is producing on his pay check. The employers role in paying 50% should be eliminated.