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To: expat_panama
Since you're a legalist, only definition 1 even comes close to the meaning of SS/MC:

A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government

Unfortunately for your thesis, SS/MC withholdings are not made for the support of the government. They're made for the support of the "Trust Funds," theoretically holding the money. That the government has borrowed against these funds doesn't change their purpose, and the government must eventually pay them back, or -- more likely as you point out -- default.

But neither default nor payback would be required of those funds if, as you incorrectly believe, they were fungible with the general revenue. They AREN'T. They're borrowed because their purpose is not to support the government, but rather to support the individuals paying them.

Thanks for blowing up your own silly, legalistic argument.

24 posted on 07/10/2011 12:00:45 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a Title. -- Thomas Paine)
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To: FredZarguna
Words mean things and we communicate only when we speak the same language using the same definitions... 

You're deliberately missing the point.

Since you're a legalist

Ah, my bad, I thought the thing here was taxes and us working out policy --instead the topic is what I am and what I'm doing.   Y'all can enjoy your fetish all you want, though I kind of think talking all day about me is well, boring.  I'll pass...

27 posted on 07/10/2011 12:34:11 PM PDT by expat_panama
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