I’m not sure that a lifelong expectation of receiving benefits from a welfare program makes it anything other than a welfare program.
Im not sure that a lifelong expectation of receiving benefits from a welfare program makes it anything other than a welfare program.
Social Security is not a welfare program.
For up to the first $100K a every person in America makes , 14% of their income is skimmed right off the top to be put into the Social Security program.
That a person has provided 14% of their income to the Government for their entire working life for a program that promises to provide a retirement income for them and is a realistic expectation that they should receive a return on their “investment”
Someone takes that 16% of your pay (don’t forget employer share) for 4 decades, you damn right that person should expect benefits at the end.
Otherwise stop pulling it from their check.
Its only welfare when it is paid out to illegals, and others who never had their paychecks plundered for it.
Except that the money to fund it has been taken from every hard working American at the point of a gun with a threat of imprisonment for non-payment.
It’s not a welfare program. I don’t care for Social Security, but it isn’t a handout. People contribute for their benefits, and the payouts aren’t (to my knowledge) means tested. Welfare is something that is given to you because you’re supposedly too poor to survive without it.
Again, I think Social Security is a grand Ponzi scheme, but I think we should try to honor the promises that were made while we at least change Social Security into a voluntary program. If it was, I’d still opt out at my age (which is not young).