“Social security is a welfare program.”
You don’t pay in to a welfare program. This is a trust fund that has been raided by Congress many times. The big raid came under Johnson to pay for his welfare program, the Great Society. Social Security is also being used to pay people that are not seniors. We have been paying in to Social Security for over a half century.
Naah. It’s a welfare program just like AFDC. The qualification criteria and means testing is of course different, but it’s still a wealth transfer program. The SS taxes you pay don’t entitle you to anything. You can pay in all your life and die before you get a dime back and your heirs will inherit a stack of tax receipts. There is no entitlement there other than the good will of the political class.
We should stop using the leftist premise that SS is anything but a welfare program. There is no lock box, no SS fund, just a bunch of IOU’s from a bankrupt government that can’t make good on it’s future obligations.