In principle I agree with you; however in practice SS is a great thing (but could use some tweaks). What would happen if we didn't have forced savings via SS? Do you think the sheeple would stand by and let millions of old folks eat cat food on the nightly news? You know they'd just vote to buy them real food and give them a home. And who'd pay for that? We would. So at least SS gives a minimum level of subsistanance that helps prevent them from going on tv eating cat food and sleeping on the street.
It's be nice to say, sorry you screwed up and spent every dime you ever made on cigs and beer, but that would never fly with most of the people.
That's funny!! I wish I could tax people 15.3%, waste the money and get them to believe it was forced savings. Thanks for the laugh.
Social Security is PURE socialism...
Socialism is slavery by government..
Socialism is a symptom of democracy.. Democracy is the social disease..
America is NO democracy..
Democracy is Mob Rule as is Monarchy, Oligarcy, Autocracy, Plutrocracy and several more 'ocracys.. as is a dictatorship and Sharia Law too..
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams (1814)
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)