Social Security

[Audie Murphy]

Why are we still paying into SS when it is a failing system and is currently in the red.

 

[jeremy]

Because if we don't pay into the program, you go to jail...

 

[revsaxon]

You could just quit your job and go live in a shack on the wilderness. That would get around the whole SS thing I think.

They really should provide an opt-out option though. Of course then everyone under 45 would take it and the system would colapse in a month, so I understand why they don.t

 

[jeremy]

You could just quit your job and go live in a shack on the wilderness. That would get around the whole SS thing I think.

I am pretty sure the Wife would not like that Plan of Action...

 

[88GT]

Why are we still paying into SS when it is a failing system and is currently in the red.

Because it keeps an ever-growing number of people dependent on .gov and all but guarantees a certain group will forever have a voting bloc of at least moderate influence (supplemented with the idiots, idealists, and unicorns).

That's my opinion anyway.

 

[INGunGuy]

Anyone my age, 40, who thinks they will ever see a penny of their SS money that has been stolen out of their paychecks are living on another planet.

INGunGuy

 

[revsaxon]

Anyone my age, 40, who thinks they will ever see a penny of their SS money that has been stolen out of their paychecks are living on another planet.

INGunGuy

Try being 25! Its even worse realizing there won't even be dollars when I would be eligible to see my stolen dollars.

 

[IncendiaryGunner]

Why are we still paying into SS when it is a failing system and is currently in the red.

Because without SS the systematic flaws in our monetary system would be more visible to the working class, and reform would be imminent.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Because you signed up for it, or your parents signed you up for so they could get a tax deduction for ya.

 

[rambone]

 

[bulldog]

Is'nt it great that they reduced our share of this tax from 6.2% to 4.2% effective January 1st. This absolutely speeds up this failure.

 

[Vince49]

?

I suppose I should refuse to recoup any of the F.I.C.A. taxes I have been paying for 49 years now? 51 or 52 years of paying by the time I retire in a few more years.

 

[WhitleyStu]

“ Why are we still paying into SS when it is a failing system and is currently in the red”
Because if you are in a situation where you are involved in a serious accident or encounter traumatic health problems and are indeed truly disabled you will be glad to know that the money you paid in will in some small way help you to get by though not at the level you currently are accustom to.

 

[rockhopper46038]

Ha! That's funny!

Wait.

That's not funny.

 

[88GT]

“ Why are we still paying into SS when it is a failing system and is currently in the red”
Because if you are in a situation where you are involved in a serious accident or encounter traumatic health problems and are indeed truly disabled you will be glad to know that the money you paid in will in some small way help you to get by though not at the level you currently are accustom to.

Says the man who has done exactly that ^^^^^?????

Oh what did they do before social security?

 

[INGunGuy]

“ Why are we still paying into SS when it is a failing system and is currently in the red”
Because if you are in a situation where you are involved in a serious accident or encounter traumatic health problems and are indeed truly disabled you will be glad to know that the money you paid in will in some small way help you to get by though not at the level you currently are accustom to.

I sure as hell hope that you meant to put that in purple...

INGunGuy

 

[.40caltrucker]

Please let me OPT out, that 12.4% of my check would do a lot better anywhere other than in our governments hands. I'd fell safer keeping it under the mattress.

I'm not planning on it being around by the time I retire, so we've planned accordingly. I'm retiring at 55 whether they want me to or not.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I suppose I should refuse to recoup any of the F.I.C.A. taxes I have been paying for 49 years now? 51 or 52 years of paying by the time I retire in a few more years.

There's nothing left to recoup. It was spent as soon as it was taxed.

What you're basically doing is threatening your children and gradchildren with jail if they don't pay you.

Sounds nice doesn't it?

 

[ATOMonkey]

Please let me OPT out, that 12.4% of my check would do a lot better anywhere other than in our governments hands. I'd fell safer keeping it under the mattress.

I'm not planning on it being around by the time I retire, so we've planned accordingly. I'm retiring at 55 whether they want me to or not.

Isn't that the truth!

 

[88GT]

Please let me OPT out, that 12.4% of my check would do a lot better anywhere other than in our governments hands.

We bemoan the same point about this time every year. Then we have a pity party when we realize how many more rentals we could have added to the portfolio...and how much more money those rentals would make us than our "security" payments will ever amount to.