Technically you are correct about Social Security. However, effectively, all that language does, “ an individual does not have an accrued property right”...is to allow Congress to modify the payments based on what funds are available at a given time.
But, you’re correct, it is not an investment. It is a forcible tax. But we can expect to be paid a benefit and are entitled to a benefit as long as funds are available.
Correct but as long as the funds are available and that is the crux of my point. The government has been spending the excess taxes for years, both repubs and dems alike. Now that the reality of socialistic security and Medicare are coming home to roost many people want to live in denial about the government’s ability to make good on its promises.