I understand your position, but as a guy who put well over $400,000 (including employer contrib) into SS and Medicare, what am I supposed to do now that I’m eligible to get some back?
You’re screwed ... as am I.
Just about everyone in the country is going to find that promises made to them by someone (and not just in governments) will not be kept.
Surviving the abrogation of those promises will be the challenge of the next century.
“I understand your position, but as a guy who put well over $400,000 (including employer contrib) into SS and Medicare, what am I supposed to do now that I’m eligible to get some back?”
Morally, not take the money. In the real world, yes, take the money, since you’re already on it. But then work to get it changed for the future, rather than immediately opposing any reform, as most of your generation has done. The system is driving my kids and their future kids into poverty...it must get changed.