You are right to a point. But I was a small businessman my whole working life. I had an average of 5 to 45 people working for me over forty yrs. As the owner of the company I had to match ALL the Soc/Sec taxes I withheld. Now you can give me all kinds of legal and financial arguments to to say it wasn't ME but the company paying it.....but I was the company and I paid those damn taxes.....and everytime I get into a bad patch the stinking IRS came after ME for the withholding taxes. So as far as I am concerned I have paid more than I will ever get back....That being said I agree with all the arguments the authors make.
You can classify me as an old coot sucking at the govt teat if you want......but I want every dime I paid those bastards over the yrs!!
The people who get "every dime I paid those bastards" are not what's breaking the system. It's the people who will receive two or three dimes, or a dollar or more, for every dime they paid in.
Those who worked in the fifties, sixties, and seventies paid a pittance compared to what they are drawing out.