Sorry if I pay into something then I want what I paid for. If the government does not want to pay me my social security then they can refund all of the money I paid into the program right now. Anything else is theft...
SS was/is nothing more than a tax disguised as a retirement benefit.
If it were truly a retirement benefit only, then the payments would stop once a beneficiary got back what they had paid in plus some interest.
After that point is passed, it’s welfare, pure and simple. And it really should be called such.
Yes we paid it but while we were not paying proper attention our govt stole it. Now, if we are going to receive it, the govt will have to steal it from our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
“Sorry if I pay into something then I want what I paid for. If the government does not want to pay me my social security then they can refund all of the money I paid into the program right now. Anything else is theft...”
You are quite right in your comment. Unfortunately, my guess is that most of us on SSA have gotten (or will get) more back than we contributed (that’s why Obamacare is set up to hasten us all to our graves). We can thank the RATS and RINOs for having spent our money buying votes instead of investing it to grow our retirement nest eggs. SSA was a bad model. But it was made totally unsustainable by the Congress!
No problem. Do you have change for a million-dollar bill?
You didn’t pay anything into any system. There is no system. There’s just taxes and expenditures. It was already theft, if it is theft, but no moreso than any other tax you paid. Except maybe for the legitimate functions of the state, if there are any.