I agree with you and I am sure they are still collecting from you-they don’t want to pay you but they still want you to fund it. Why not get rid of grants, quit giving money to other countires don’t give Brazil 2 billion for oil- The government is not our friend and they are the problem not the SS recipients who were forced to pay into the system with a promise they would get money back when they retired. It is not the public that squandered the money on bridges to no where monuments to each other. My husband would gladly opt out of the SS system and forfeit all he has put inas long as they stop taking the money from him each month out of his paycheck
“My husband would gladly opt out of the SS system and forfeit all he has put inas long as they stop taking the money from him each month out of his paycheck”
Your husband, if hes in his 40’s or early 50’s will not collect SS, despite having paid in. Unfortunately, he is unlikely to be able to quit paying. That’s my situation as well.
The government IS the problem as you stated - part of that problem is that the promises they made will not be kept.