I disagree that it my Social Security comes out of YOUR paycheck. It is paid for by withholding. I paid for my entire adult life.
I don’t need you to give me anything.
Just give me back what I already paid in cash—I’d invest it myself, but Uncle Sam won’t allow that.
Go back and read the thread. I think you are missing my point.
Ok AB...there’s a cloud of confusion here.
YOU do not pay anything toward anyone else’s SS but your own. But you day pay more, perhaps, for a product of a manufacturer who DOES pay 6.2%, exactly the same as every SS contributor.
But ok, that’s a product. But argument is...SS does affect the economy in which you live.
Exactly right we all paid our own way and some of us for our employees as well. It was one of my worst investments ever but we had to pay anyway.