[daniel1212]

The above is a classic example of the government getting their foot in the door with a tax that just keeps increasing as time goes on. Nowadays, the FICA burden is 15.3% of income (with employers still paying half) up to an income of $168,600 in 2024. Now Social Security is extended to younger people with "disabilities". I personally know somebody who went on SSI in his mid 30s because he had bad knees and could not do his job anymore (tiling). He was offered an office job by his employer but declined and went on lifetime SSI instead

Social Security has expanded, while contraception and welfare is much to blame for deficients. And I am quite sure I know someone else who scammed her way into SSDI. However, the gov. states:

SSI is financed by general funds of the U.S. Treasury — personal income taxes, corporate taxes, and other taxes. Social Security taxes collected under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) or the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) do not fund the SSI program.

[SamAdams76]

Thanks for clarification but our tax dollars nonetheless funding young and mostly able people to not have to work the rest of their lives.

That just irks me to no end. I can understand, for example, a true disability that prevents one from doing a certain job (i.e. construction) but that should not preclude one from having a desk job inside the construction trailer or another job that does not require manual labor.

I have a relative that works for a cement company and ended up getting disabled. Now he works as a dispatcher for that same company and tells the trucks where to go.