Social security has been raided to pay for the general fund for years. While nominally it goes "to your account", in practice it's a tax used to pay for things

Social security has been raided to pay for the general fund for years. While nominally it goes "to your account", in practice it's a tax used to pay for things in the general fund just like income taxes are. I may have read the tax table wrong, because I got a 4% higher tax rate for federal income tax. My bad - looks like it's as you say. While it should already feel a little weird to pay slightly less (percentage-wise) than someone who makes $30k/year with a seven figure income, you actually paid far more than someone who regularly makes that amount would. You had far less incentive and time to set up tax shelters. A "regularly" rich person would pay an even lower percentage of their income.