Not only you but your employer contributed as well. You and I worked our whole lives for it and we did not have a choice - it was a forced contribution. If the government had treated it like such, and not added disability, etc to it would be solvent.
Sorry, there was nothing ‘paid into’ nor ‘contributed’. There is, was and never will be a ‘set aside’ nor ‘lockbox’.
You, me and the rest were TAXED, plain and simple. Just because you bought into the gov’t lies to cover their Unconstitutional Ponzi scheme means nothing.
No offense, but your group think is a reason the Conservatives will NEVER shrink gov’t back to A1S8. It’s always ‘hands off’ of the ‘ethical’ (IE: *I PAID for it*) mine, mine MINE regardless of the fiscal slavery of our future/posterity.
Instead, the same Congress has been re-re-re-elected. I sure do hope that Gen Y (maybe even us X’s) rise up to finally kill what never should have been. It’d be about time SOMEONE did so.