“Get away with”?
You are really making me angry. I paid the maximum into that crap for over 25 years. That was my money! You’re fine with them robbing me it seems.
All I can tell you is someone is going to pay dearly if they screw me.
You are really making me angry. I paid the maximum into that crap for over 25 years. That was my money! You’re fine with them robbing me it seems.
It was your money. Then it became taxes. But not enough taxes, because you're leaving behind a 39 trillion (and growing) debt because not all of the government spending your generation enjoyed during your life was supported by taxes.
But that's not good enough for you. You want to bury the future in even more debt. I think that's immoral.
All I can tell you is someone is going to pay dearly if they screw me.
I'm really sorry FDR foisted this ponzi on our society, but running it a little longer for your benefit is still immoral and a harm to the nation as a whole. Welfare checks for people making above the median national income is unconscionable when the debt is 39 trillion and growing over 2 trillion dollars a year.
Throughout your entire working career the money you paid in once it left you its not your money! That money paid the SS benefits of those already retired. Just like the current working generation is paying your current benefits. There’s been several USSC cases that say you have no asset ownership in the money you paid in. If you did you could leave it to your heirs. You can’t! If you live long enough you can take out far more then you put in. Consider the case of Ida May Fuller - the first Social Security recipient.
Fuller worked under Social Security just shy of three years, from the spring of 1937 to November 1939, and paid a total of $24.75 (equivalent to $522 in 2025) in Social Security taxes.
Fuller’s claim was the first one on the first certification list, so the first Social Security check (check number 00-000-001), dated January 31, 1940, was issued to Fuller in the amount of $22.54 (equivalent to $518 in 2025). She collected over her lifetime a total of $22,888.92 (equivalent to $526,010 in 2025) in Social Security benefits. Paid a total of $24.75 ($522 in 2025 dollars) into the system. Collected a total of $22,888.92 ($526,010 in 2025 dollars). There have been thousands if not tens of thousands of Ida May Fullers thanks to modern medicine!