My husband and I just recently retired...between the two of us, we paid into SS for over 70years...he paid in over 45 years, I paid in for 25 years, taking 20years off to raise a family..
So yeah, I would like every dime back, that was taken from us when we were working...
Right after the hubby retired, I was on a FR thread, and discussing with someone else about traveling around the US in our RV, now that we were retired...we were going to have so much free time, now that our schedules were no longer regulated by our jobs...our time was our own...all we had to do, was have our pension checks, our SS checks, and our annuity checks sent direct deposit to one central account, and from there we could draw out our money whenever we needed it...
Someone, obviously much younger, was outraged that I would enjoy myself RVing around the country at her personal expense...after all, her social security contributions, were paying for me to live my retirement as I chose, and she did not like that...thought if I was a good American, according to her standards, I should send back my SS check...when I asked her, what about the 70+ number of years I and the hubby had paid into SS, this otherwise very vocal poster, shut up and ran away...
So the question does remain...what about the money that I and the hubby paid in for over 70+ years..much of that time, one or the other of us was working two jobs, or pulling down lots of overtime...we worked dang hard, too hard to have some know-nothing tell me I should feel guilty for RVing around the country, while she, poor dear, was having to pay for my RV gas money, directly out of her own pocket...
Good on you!!
I get my first SS check later this month (good Lord willin’ ‘n’ if the river don’t rise) and I’d still rather have the $100K in my ‘account’ with a nominal 3% compounded interest for that 40+ year loan I was forced to give the government.
All I want is to get out of the system. The government can keep all that I’ve put into the system from when I started working until now (about 20 years), as long as they agree to never charge me ss again, and I promise never to collect.