Your resentment toward the payroll tax is understandable. I resented having to pay the nearly $200 thousand combined total (employer/employee) in payroll taxes over my working career. Also resented was the tax on “income” that was levied against my earnings. I happen to personally believe that income taxes are inherently immoral.
But the fact remains that as the law now stands, I have a claim against the federal treasury, as do government employees, military servicemen, and people who loaned the government money (bondholders). I didn’t write the SS law, and had I been alive in 1934, I would have opposed creation of the thing.
So the question becomes who do you stiff first? That is the argument.
This current crop of seniors has an easy answer to that question - the young people who are currently working should be stiffed first.
And, each day, we have between 10,000 and 11,000 people celebrating their 65th birthday - each day.
And, they vote.
“So the question becomes who do you stiff first? That is the argument”
The argument is bigger than that. And sadly I see the answer from all those caring more about receiving what is due them than anything else.
The question is - does getting a treasury benefit affect how one votes?
The founding fathers risked ALL, even their lives. But we are now a nation that wants the status quo, even if it means going bankrupt or putting it on our Children’s backs.