As a matter of fact, it requires the math of a complete simpleton. Why don't you try adding in compound interest on all the cash you flushed down the toilet over the decades? Use an unrealistic, conservative rate if you wish. Then, knock off the "benefits" that would have been paid to the one or two people in your family who will unexpectedly drop dead or otherwise die by age 55, or 58, or 62, or 68. Whatever.
If you are still convinced that you and your family will get back more than you were forced at gunpoint to put in, then write a check to the US treasury and have yourself a party. But don't write any of my checks to the treasury, please.
In other words, "means test" yourself all you want, but don't try to pull that Nazi socialist Democrat scumbag "means test" stuff on me.
Thanks.
Now that's not so difficult, is it?
By the way, I completely agree with you that SS is a Ponzi sheme and a stealth welfare program at its core. It should be completely privatized, if it can't be abolished altogether. But as long as I have been forced to "contribute" my whole life, I want every last dime back that I can get. The fact that I worked hard and saved for retirement shouldn't mean that my social security benefits should be "means tested" and diverted to some lazy, irresponsible slug. Screw them. I am sick up to here of "the poor".
FRegards,
Lancey, the Old and Grouchy
When SS was set up the average life span was 61 & the retirement age was set at 62. They didn’t expect many people to live long enough to actually receive SS. Now the average age is 78 years & longer. And there’s no way enough was paid in to sustain a person on ‘earnings’.
It was the NAZI’s who set up this ponzi scheme. And if you have any wealth at all, it will be taken from you to keep this scheme going. Unless we figure out something else, & it will either mean means-testing or just letting the gov’t collapse.
I’m getting so p*ssed off I don’t really even care anymore which of those happens.