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Just shows that the US government can't afford to launch any wars or flex its muscles, when it does so it does it at the cost of all these people who have paid
by x5n1 11y ago
Just shows that the US government can't afford to launch any wars or flex its muscles, when it does so it does it at the cost of all these people who have paid a life's worth of taxes, and have nothing show for it. The corporate interests and the government has eaten all that work and not given them enough to live off in their old age.
- refurb 11y agoall these people who have paid a life's worth of taxes The social security benefits she receives are based off her lifetime earnings and thus the taxes she paid.
- tamana 11y agoThat's not true. SS taxes are an entry ticket, but the benefits are paid without regard to any sort of national investment of those twx payments.
- refurb 11y agoThey aren't based on off the investment of those contributions, but yes, they are based off the income you earned over your lifetime.[1] [1]https://www.ssa.gov/retire/estimator.html https://www.ssa.gov/retire/estimator.html
- nadezhda18 11y agoshe needs a financial class to learn how to save money - much more than money itself