Why Shouldn't I be allowed to opt out of Social Security (legal, economy)
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Hmmm, what (or whom) have you been living off all these years?
I'm self employed. It depends if it is spring, summer, fall or winter. I have several hobbies, that I make a little cheese from. Come October, you will find me in the deer woods until mid January, guiding bowhunts for whitetail, axis, fallow, sika, hogs and turkey. I also sell a few calves and trap live hogs.
I have also been known to lay a floor or two. Then there are the 3 wells pumping hard out back.
It cant be because when you guys get wacked (economic) I dont want you on welfare. I want you getting your money and more back that was protected by US Tres. bonds.
Wat about those with a family history of (disease x and) early death? They're not going to live long enough to be old and poor, so why should they have to pay into a system that will probably return nothing to them?
SS is welfare, that's all it was ever designed to be. It's a fail-safe for people that worked and lost everything or failed to save. The only difference between now and 70 years ago is people today live longer and treat SS like a retirement plan. Why do you think the system in unsustainable?
Do people in this country seriously expect minimum wage earners to save for retirement?
I'm self employed. It depends if it is spring, summer, fall or winter. I have several hobbies, that I make a little cheese from. Come October, you will find me in the deer woods until mid January, guiding bowhunts for whitetail, axis, fallow, sika, hogs and turkey. I also sell a few calves and trap live hogs.
I have also been known to lay a floor or two. Then there are the 3 wells pumping hard out back.
If you've not paid into SS, and don't want it, and don't need it, maybe you shouldn't be critical of it?
Explain at least to ONE MEMBER how while being self employed, you don't pay SS tax, which exactly what I stated earlier in the thread, but one person just doesn't get it.
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Originally Posted by nojiveman
you can. Start your own company {self employed}, then refuse to pay any and all taxes.
Member Bentbow is self employed and doesn't, I asked him/she to explain it to you.
I was self employed too, but paid my federal taxes and my self employment taxes, some people who are sub contractors that receive 1099's at years end don't necessarily pay all taxes.
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