social security is not a tax, if you don't give folks their due share...then you have retroactively taxed them....you want that? really? I want them to cut all the unnecessary spending.......they have no constitutional right to tax us for abortions, healthcare, sex studies, embryonic stem cell research...you get the idea. The country can tax us to support the common good....build roads, bridges, form a military, conduct foreign affairs....cut the rest of it and the social security money will be there. we don't need all that liberal claptrap spending.
“social security is not a tax...”
Oh yes it is. The money come in and goes right back out. Prior generations voted for Congresses that would do just that...fund their welfare programs, public housing, NASA, Vietnam, etc, but NOT PAY FOR THEM through regular taxes, but instead let them get financed though Social Security ‘surpluses’. In other words, the money could really have been saved, just like trillions sit in 401k’s, but its already been spent so earlier generations could have their programs, but not pay for them.
I’m a parent, and I don’t see why my kids and their generation and their kids should have to pay for the above greed. That generation made THE CHOICE (via their collective voting) to SPEND, rather than save their Social Security - it is NOT the fault of my kids and they should not have to live in a THIRD WORLD nation because of it.