Taxpayers under 45 years old are going to be raped by Social Security. They should be furious about having to pay into this ponzi scheme. Maybe some are finally starting to wake up that the music has stopped and there are no more chairs left.
If it is any consolation to you, I am a “Boomer” who recognizes I am in the same boat as the under-40 set—I will never get back what I “put in” as the feds have turned the SSS into a straight welfare plan. I am not counting on SS retirement at all. I think it will be a pittance—and I know folks who have been told just that by SS staff. The people who will get mucho benefits are the under 40 set who get on SS disability in their 20s and 30s—and there are a lot of them—who then only work in the underground economy, if that, while living on the federal teat. And it is easy to get it in most places for psychiatric problems — “depression”, etc, which the feds allow to be easily “proven”.