Yes. If you are mentally and physically healthy, taxpayers should not pay you to retire at 65. When Social Security was created, life expectancy was 64. Today, it's 78. Also, people require purpose. If you can retire and find purpose, go for it. For many, that's a bad idea.
Yes. If you are mentally and physically healthy, taxpayers should not pay you to retire at 65. When Social Security was created, life expectancy was 64. Today, it's 78. Also, people require purpose. If you can retire and find purpose, go for it. For many, that's a bad idea.
@benshapiro Social Security is not *taxpayers* paying *you* to retire. It is *you* collecting on the money that *you* have been paying into the system your entire life. Or at least, that's how the system is supposed to function, though in practice SS is a giant Ponzi Scheme.
Yes it’s a massive Ponzi scheme. We need to acknowledge this. Because when you look at federal expenditures, it is bankrupting us. While the Fed gov spends our money coming in on their insane foreign corruption pursuits. We have to do something, should be centered around getting people back what they paid in. The government should not be involved in retirement, via “investing” or mandating age.
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro I posted this at the exact same time...LOL x.com/StevenHasty1/s…
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro I posted this at the exact same time...LOL x.com/StevenHasty1/s…
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro The money you put in was spent long before you retire and then some.
It's always easy for the wealthy who will never need S.S. to say such things. My widowed father paid in that money all his life. Hard jobs working like a dog. He's 79 now. And if he only started drawing his money, that he was forced to pay in, when he turned 70+ he would have had some serious struggles that he does not currently have.
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro Where can I see how much I’ve paid into it?
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro That’s a fact. If I’ve been extorted for all of my working days without agency over 6.2% of my income, I’m going to take full advantage of the money that should have been mine all along.
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro How about I keep my money now and pay myself back later
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro You think it's their money still sitting around? Yeah, it's a giant scam and tax payers are paying for the retired and they'll never get paid back for it.
@TheLaurenChen @benshapiro True. Because the government manages to screw up everything it touches, it has mismanaged the fund so badly that now it's funded by people who are working now...for people like me who worked for 60 years and paid into it.
Yes and when SS was created, it was by choice, temporary, would not be taxed and the fund couldnt be taken from. We see how all that changed, didn't we? They have moved the retirement years later, which you neglect to mention as well. They stole from the account numerous times. That doesn't mean those who paid in should now be homeless according to your logic. Obviously when your rich like @benshapiro you don't need SS funds to retire. What a 🤡!