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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
That's for sure. We paid into SS so that money should be earmarked for retirees.
But if they want to return the $$ I paid in over 30 years, with interest, I would gladly take it.
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Exactly. Social Security wasn't just another government entitlement program paid for from the general fund, but rather a specific tax instituted for a specific purpose. To consider delaying and/or reducing payments is, at least to me, like the contemplating the violation of a contract. If they welsh on us I say we ought to be able sue them for non payment and begin to seize their assets like any other deadbeat.
What makes me so unwilling to compromise on this subject is the knowledge that SS wouldn't be in trouble if they hadn't repeatedly raided the fund over the years, and worse, that they could still fix the problem if they just stopped wasting billions every year on pork barrel boondoggles and foreign aid.