That’s right, I did pay for it.
“That’s right, I did pay for it.”
So you are saying you paid in as much as you have or will have gotten out before you die? If you died a week ago and this is your ghost typing you can not have PAID for it. Your generation and the ones prior to that AND my own are in the process of spending up all those accumulated ss tax dollars on other things as well. You haven’t paid for your benefits that you may have recieved to date. Your SS money went to pay for a highway built in 1997 or some such. Even if you said that you shouldn’t be faulted for your money being spent on other things, but that you should get back exactly what you paid in for the SS taxes you spent over your lifetime, there is the highest probabilitly that you will spend more than you paid in post retirement. In short, you won’t have paid for it. I will.