I worked a long time for this money. Why should the retirees have to suffer because our government has been stealing our money. Make the people who stole it pay for retirement.
And that is precisely why we will never, ever see entitlements cut--because even those who should be against them say "Well, I want what I put in back!"
It's straight out of the leftist playbook--force an entitlement into place, and everyone wants "their" piece of it.
I'd forfeit all of my share to take my country back to being a place based on its founding principles.
Well, you could be like me, pay in the max demanded since I was 25 — and as of 29 paid BOTH the personal and employer max, since I owned my own company.
Even as things stand now, I get a NEGATIVE return on my money -— as in, I would have done better putting the money in my mattress, let alone letting me invest it.
Anyway, under Fred’s plan, there will be no cut to current retired people.