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We already have a portion of our take home pay burned in front of us. Do you see that Medicare and Social Security deduction on your pay stub? Yeah......
by monkmartinez 10y ago
We already have a portion of our take home pay burned in front of us. Do you see that Medicare and Social Security deduction on your pay stub? Yeah......
- toomuchtodo 10y agoThat's called "paying for civilization" versus "lets bomb another 100k innocent civilians with precision guided munitions".
- monkmartinez 10y agoHard to argue with that logic... wow.
- zeveb 10y agoI wonder if all the folks downvoting you honestly believe that they will see a single penny of the Social Security they've been paying all these years? At least the military budget is a) constitutional b) a reasonable expenditure for a government (as opposed to a mutual-aid society).
- sean2 10y agoI didn't actually down vote, but yes, I expect to see money from social security and Medicaid. I also see my parents retiring and using the money I'm contributing right now. I really don't feel like my money is being lit on fire in this case and he didn't make any argument to convince me I should.
- Frondo 10y agoOf course you won't see a single penny that you put in, because that's not how Social Security works. When us younger Americans start drawing our Social Security, it'll be that era's young whose pennies we're drawing. Social security isn't "you pay in, you get back out what you put in" it's "you pay in for today's olds, and when you're old, young people pay in for you".