I get it!
I pay social security taxes for 45 years, or so, and save additional money (denying myself immediate gratification) to provide for my retirement, and you want to take the SS benefit away as a reward for my frugality, self-control and advance planning, and give it to some mooch who spent all his money on toys.
Thanks, but I will pass.
The older seniors can think they are going to get their benefits and be right. But younger seniors, with the path our country is on, will have their benefits inflated away or a straight out collapse of the system like in Greece. 40% of every dollar the government spends is debt. That’s like a family making $50,000 a year taking on $20,000 a year in debt. It doesn’t work. Young people at a certain point will go into an underground economy or go on the dole themselves.
There is no trust fund. You’ve known it all your life or should have.