All my life, at least since the 80s, I’ve heard over and over that Social Security was going to be bankrupt a few years before I retired (which means basically now as I’m less than 10 years away now). I’ve paid in my whole life and I still expect then to somehow deny me any benefit from it. Fortunately I planned accordingly and saved saved saved for retirement starting in my 20s. I’ll be okay but a lot of folk won’t.
I should add, I'll be okay until they come for the 401Ks, which I have no doubt they will do so people who didn't save for retirement can live off the savings of those of us who did.
We are now into the THIRD aborted generation post Roe v. Wade...millions, their children, and now their grandchildren who would be now reaching wage earning and tax paying age.
You and I are paying current retirees. The money we pay is not ours. I’m not sure why people don’t understand the program. It’s not a savings account.