It is an above board open and honest program. There is nothing hidden or sneaky about it. Not to say that politicians have not lied about it and mislead people as to its true nature and workings because they have.
SS was conceived as an entitlement welfare program and its funding was a tax transfer. It remains that way to this day. It is a political creation and its destiny is governed by politics. The SC has ruled that SS can be changed by Congress at anytime in anyway and that there are no immutable rights to SS.
The money taken from you today is given to someone else today. There is no fiduciary duty, no trust fund in the normal accounting/legal sense of the word, it is not a sacred obligation, or intergenerational pact, and the fact that you have had a lifetime of government coerced payments does not entitle you to a dime beyond the political expediency of the moment.
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>> “and that there are no immutable rights to SS.” <<
IOW, it is a total theft program.
Our money goes in, but we have no rights.
You are a soft-headed socialist dolt.
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