” collecting the annuities”
It is not an annuity. It’s an entitlement - in other words and hand into someone else’s wallet who actually did the work to earn the money.
” us deluded conservatives who paid 50 years into a government forced savings plan “
It was a tax. It was not, and is not a “savings plan”.
You are taking someone else’s money - at least be honest with yourself when you are taking it.
I’m not telling you not to take it. Of course you (and half of all Americans) are going to take the money. That’s easy. Whether you consider yourself “conservative” or not - you’ll take it just like everyone else.
It’s much harder to be honest about who’s money it actually is.
I understand that, and I expect you to be angry about it.
Still, you should be honest about it.
After I take my money from 50 years of deductions, calculated at what interest I Would have earned if the government let me save and invest it, then I will be taking someone else’s’ money - realistically that’s about 10’years from now if I live that long
Yeah, I am entitled to that because the government made a contract with me, just like an insurance company - which also pays benefits with OPM ( (you don’t have or intend to ever collect on insurance, right? Because you’ll be taking other peoples’ money)
You might not like social security but too bad.
You have the same contract now , which is why you have to pay into the system
but if you hit 66 and don’t want to take the entitlement - don’t
Same with your parents and grandparents if you have any alive
If you are young enough you can go start again in a country that doesn’t collect taxes for old age pensions by whatever name they call it
I read the Caymans is not too tough to move to