The notion was everybody is making a contribution because you don’t know when the business cycle or an economic crisis might make any of us vulnerable.”
I will be sooooo glad when he is unemployed.
Contribution?
I don’t remember anyone asking me for a contribution?
Contribution?
I don’t remember anyone asking me for a contribution?
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That only applies when it comes to YOUR SSA that YOU forcibly contributed to - 1/2 matched by your Employer, then, IF you managed to get to the ‘American Dream’ - Self Employment - you got to pay the entire .15 on every dollar you earned.
Whatever excuse they used OR are using - .075 was ‘put aside’ to supplement YOUR retirement - SO THE GOVT WOULDN’T HAVE TO.
Problem is, Medicine/diet/ etc got better and people weren’t working till 65 and dying at 66.
Things were ‘bad enough’ with the slush fund that Pols had at their fingertips, so they went ahead and declared drug addiction and alcoholism a DISEASE, thereby qualifying MORE people to ‘dip into the fund’...
algores (supposed) lock box was not only NOT locked, it was/is not a bottomless pit.
Jay Leno commented last night that Colorado was facing a shortage in Marijuana as sales have been so brisk.
Leno opined that ‘Leave it to the Government to get involved. There was NEVER a shortage in product when private enterprise ran it’.
Of course he didn’t mention that private enterprise adjusted the prices to keep the supply intact.