However, Mr. paine's money would have been taken at gunpoint and he likely would have been jailed had he refused to pay those taxes.
The least the Feds could do would be to return his stolen money, with interest, and issue an apology, don't you think?
And just where is that money going to come from?
The fact is that the people from whom SS "contributions" were taken have a right to their money, but no more right than anyone else from whom money would have to be taken to pay it back. The most equitable thing to do, therefore, would be to provide partial repayment of the money that was illegitimately taken, much in the way that a bankruptcy court awards partial payments of debts to creditors. I don't know what formulae would be most equitable, but something involving partial repayment is the only thing that would seem fair to me.
They can't return it. They spent it already. They would have to steal further money from me and every other working American to pay people back for the money they already stole. I'm tired of having money stolen from me. I earn it. I have to work all the way through January and February of each year just to pay my annual "contribution" to the freakin' leeches living off my paycheck. That doesn't even count the months I have to work to earn money to be confiscated as income tax that will be spent on welfare and other unconstitutional social programs.
Heck, I even pay local property tax that goes into a school system that my children don't even use as they are homeschooled. I sure could use that money to spend on my kids' own curriculum and not for someone else's kids' curriculum.