My paychecks-and yours-pay into SS and medicare via taxes every time one is written-and if I get paid by the customer directly, I pay up at the end of the year. I will work for the rest of my life, and I will pay into those programs-it is not a choice. The “general fund” where that extorted money is kept is raided every time the pigs at the trough in DC want money.
And I’m the widow of a military vet-cuts to the budget should start at the administrative levels of every porker program, not with our troops and defenses.
Bless you Texan5. I am sure many of us will be working until we drop, that is, if we can find work in the Obama Economy. Hang in there.