“I would be more than delighted if the government would return to me all the money that they have deducted, in constant dollars with the meager return of treasury certificates.”
If it makes you feel better, whatever you’re losing on SS you likely are making up on Medicare. That’s why Medicare is going seriously broke. The average recipient is getting about $3 in benefits for every dollar paid in taxes. Today’s youngsters are paying the lion’s share of your Medicare, not you.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/social-security-medicare-benefits-over-lifetime.pdf
Unfortunately I am the exception. I have paid the max in social security and Medicare for the last 45 years. If you look at the amount of money taken, I could have been far better off in private plans without SS or Medicare.
Although retired I continue to pay into my private insurance plans as I do want good medical care. I am one of the few that would have been better off without social security or medicare. I guess I am one of the elite rich living off the backs of the poor. /sarcasm I was 18 years old when I went to work on a drilling rig as a roughneck. I owe not one person anything except for those that can not care for themselves due to physical or mental disabilities. I owe not one person anything except for those that are handicaped by physical or mental disabilities. Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies