@FarmLady1968@SenBillCassidy I have accepted these facts: That money is gone. I’m never getting any of it back. I didn’t “pay into a system”, I was robbed. I’m upset about it. I would like them to stop stealing money from every paycheck.
@LynAldenContact@LawrenceLepard The Federal Government should end all taxation, subsidy on our donations only, and declare bankruptcy to write off the national debt. Easy.
@BeingJWood Ironic. With inflation so high, no one actually knows if their nominal profits reflect an actual increase in purchasing power (wealth), or real losses. That’s the whole picture. (Robert Reich is not a reliable source, he’s a political hack propagandist.)
SS “contributions” automatically deducted from your pay are not optional contributions. The Supreme Court has ruled they are taxes and can be spent on anything the government wants, and the government has no obligation to return any of it to you. I call that fraud. I call that theft.
All that money is already gone. There is nothing but government bonds in the “trust fund”. Also, they are special bonds that Social Security is forbidden from selling, so they’re not regular bonds, they are IOU notes from the politicians. We have all been robbed. The money is already gone.
@Tu_Quoque_4_U@RealKeithWeiner If a thief steals from you, then steals from someone else to pay you back, it’s still theft. You’re just happy you switched the victim from yourself to someone else. Does that make you complicit in the second act of thievery? Does it make a difference who the thief is?
@FluentInFinance The trust fund is already empty. It was raided by the politicians and replaced with government bonds that are not negotiable. In other words, the excess cash was replaced with IOU notes long ago. To say the trust fund “runs out” in 2032 is just make believe accounting.