SCOTUS ruled back in the 1960s that SS was actually a tax and that it had the power to alter, amend or outright eliminate the benefit. I have paid in over $250K into the system the past 20 plus years. I should easily have over $500K in a retirement account of my own that I could see go to $2 million in another 20 years without having to add another dine to it.
but noooooooooooooooooooooo
I’m probably in the same situation. Get our money back by no longer funding sex studies of the red throated zip picker and other congressional waste. We get our money’s worth out of our military - I know, I’ve been there. And military spending is now dwarfed by the ‘entitlement’ spending throughout the rest of government. We’ve cut the military to the bones twice in my lifetime - and nothing good has ever come from it - no savings, no benefit - just more waste in other sectors of gov’t.