It’s a myth that there is any sort of system underlying SS past taking money from today’s workers and giving it to today’s recipients. SS is an income transfer. It takes today and gives today. Not that our government hasn’t created the illusion of a formal pension system because it has and people allow themselves to be deluded into accepting it.
SS is an entitlement.
SS is indeed entitlement. Paying someone to not work and be dumb again.
For those forced to invest in this “entitlement” their entire working lives, it is an “earned entitlement”, and to take it away would be no different for the same people to have paid off their home with earned income and having the federal government taking it away.
Yes, today’s SS checks do come from today’s confiscations. The problem is the corrupt government playing games with a system that would barely work to begin with and making an utter joke of it for the sake of buy votes.
So today’s retired should have to pay double? That is, having earnings confiscated while working and having that same money taken away again when they are no longer able to recoup it through employment?
When it comes time for the far right of the far right conservatives, (and leftiest of the dems for that matter) to start cutting entitlements, it will never start with those that have never earned it. It will be a vote buying scam of some sort to get a certain class of people to vote or to line pockets.
Politics do not change, just the era, people and places.