[Carry_Okie]

I seem to remember my wife and I paying $20,000 per year (including the employer "contribution") in Social Security taxes to support our "Greatest Generation" parents who'd never paid diddly into the system. At that very time, we were also paying $17,000/yr in daycare costs (two babies). Interest rates on the house I'd built were 8.5% fixed.

And they're complaining?

[Myrddin]

I paid well beyond the social security max cutoff every year for the past 40 years. That results in pretty decent social security retirement check. It will be better as my medical IRMA penalty ages out over the next two years. The trick in my case is staying on the green side of the lawn. June 2026 will mark my 2nd anniversary after the Whipple surgery for ampullary cancer. Statistically, it will recur at that point in time and give me 6 miserable weeks on the way to the grave.

[TexasGator]

“I seem to remember my wife and I paying $20,000 per year (including the employer “contribution”) in Social Security taxes to support our “Greatest Generation” parents who’d never paid diddly into the system. At that very time, we were also paying $17,000/yr in daycare costs (two babies). Interest rates on the house I’d built were 8.5% fixed.
And they’re complaining?”

Most of them are dead ...

[maddog55]

So how old are you? Wife and I are 71. Married 52 years. We paid a shxt ton in taxes but we also invested and are living quite well. As for the greatest generation they deserve nothing but respect and everything we could possibly give them, because without them you’d be speaking German if your family lifeline wasn’t terminated.

Quit your bitching and be responsible for yourself.

[Political Junkie Too]

And they're complaining?

And so will you when it's your turn to receive the benefits of your lifelong contributions and some pink-haired, nose-pierced, tattooed, something in a dress starts insisting that they don't want to pay for "selfish" you.

-PJ

[Jolla]

“our “Greatest Generation” parents who’d never paid diddly into the system”

Boomer here, my folks paid into SS, I have my grandfathers SS original SS card from 1936.