You were *told* you were making an investment.
What I’m saying is that you were lied to. There was no investment. You were told you were making an investment in your retirement. They lied to your face - you were paying for the retirement of other people, not your own retirement.
Now, you’re 100% right - you paid these taxes as you were producing in our economy, unlike the grifters who are sponging off the system. You have followed the rules, and with those who followed the rules, the bargain should be kept. But I want people to understand that there is no account with your SSN on it at the SSA. The money you put in over your working lifetime is gone, spent in part on other people’s benefits and on US Treasury debt.
To get to the heart of the problem and punish the grifters while not punishing you will require the political will to say “You grifters are going to stop stealing from productive people. We’re done with allowing you to eat out the substance of the productive people of this country. If you try to cheat or steal your way through society any more, we will see to it that you starve to death.”
Somehow, I just don’t see that happening, however much we might desire it to happen.
” You were *told* you were making an investment. “
Actually, we were *told* we were making a ‘contribution’ — FICA is the acronym for “Federal INSURANCE CONTRIBUTION Act”...
And, as long as there is even ONE unconstitutional “Alphabet Acronym” federal agency in existence, and wasting dollars, you have no moral right to default (recognize that word from another - but related - context??) on this lifelong contractual obligation......
Not only that, but by insisting that the benefits be paid to you, you are doing the same thing to every young person today, with the added caveat that we cannot afford to pay these benefits.
So think carefully. Why are you strapping off your set of chains, adding onto the overall link, and going, ‘hey kid, have at it?’