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That's not preposterous. As usual, the only people who gain is the slacker/taker class.
Yes it is preposterous. Medicare has no cap and the middle class benefit greatly from it.
And the big money donor class who buy your politician see YOU as a slacker and taker as well, you just like to feel that you are so much better than the disabled, the poor and the vulnerable.
When you claim that you are not portraying anyone as idiots with such comments, just because they dont want to hand over SS to Wall Street, you are really not being honest with yourself.
Again, my comment was not correlating peoples comprehension of math to not wanting to turn over SS to private parties. But please continue to chop my quotes down to misleading snippets that you then turn around on me.
I'm going to go back to ignoring you because your intents here are obviously rooted in savage, malicious intent to deceive, and not to be honest about the conversation or your motives.
It's not even a taxes paid = benefits received system anymore. It's a LOSING proposition for most people, as even the SS Admin admits. How do you not get that?
It's a fallacious argument.
SS is not an investment instrument, it is not the same thing as putting your money into a market account.
It's a fallacious argument.
SS is not an investment instrument, it is not the same thing as putting your money into a market account.
Why not just let people opt out of SS from the very beginning? Most would come out ahead even if they stuffed those SS tax $ in a mattress and realized no gain whatsoever. That has been going on since the mid 1980s, for 30 years. There can't be that many 95+ year olds. Just give everyone back the SS tax $ they've paid.
Why not just let people opt out of SS from the very beginning?
Because it's needed to support current beneficiaries. If we stopped contributing, what do suggest should happen to them?
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Most would come out ahead even if they stuffed those SS tax $ in a mattress and realized no gain whatsoever. That has been going on since the mid 1980s, for 30 years. There can't be that many 95+ year olds. Just give everyone back the SS tax $ they've paid.
Hey if the US system isn't to your liking, you know where the door is.
You're like someone complaining about your local property taxes.
But i don't go down those particular roads so why should i pay for their lighting and upkeep?
If everyone received the same access to equal benefits as is true with the property tax, there would be no complaint. But they don't. Both SS and Medicare disproportionately favor the slacker/taker class.
Because it's needed to support current beneficiaries.
Why? Why didn't the government perform their required fiduciary responsibility and invest that money for a return that added to the total?
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If we stopped contributing, what do suggest should happen to them?
Like I said, most people have been losing money on SS since the mid 1980s. That's 30 years. There aren't that many 95+ year olds. Just give everyone back what they've paid into the system and abolish it.
Why? Why didn't the government perform their required fiduciary responsibility and invest that money for a return that added to the total?
I don't know let's go back in time and ask them.
But maybe, just maybe it's connected to the reality that those 'private investments' lost everything during the crash and were not to be trusted with public money.
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