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People Who Get Social Security Benefits Without Having Children Are Free Riders

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-22 04:01|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Another thought exercise; a new college graduate with 50k in student loans and a good job making 60k a year pays Social Security $$ to Warren Buffet.

Posted by Airandee 2019-01-22 06:20|| 2019-01-22 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Was having kids part of the original agreement? In writing? No? Then how bout those who paid in are entitled to collect?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-22 07:11|| 2019-01-22 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Was having kids part of the original agreement? In writing? No? Then how bout those who paid in are entitled to collect?

Exactly! More 'Needs Based' communism.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-22 07:18|| 2019-01-22 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 1. Single people pay social security tax in an imposed contract that implied remittance when a certain age was reached.

2. Singles pay property and income taxes to support a primary and secondary education system which they put no burden on.

3. Singles pay health insurance packages that include group costs for pediatric care of the group members who have children.

Who's the real free rider? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-22 07:24|| 2019-01-22 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't recall being offered a choice about whether to enroll in SS. They just started taking the money. Since I was forced into the program, I don't owe the Federalist or any other pundit squat.

Posted by Spolump Pholuck7341 2019-01-22 08:27|| 2019-01-22 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to mention my tax $ funding Planned Parenthood genocide.

Posted by Warthog 2019-01-22 09:49|| 2019-01-22 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Social Security was never anything but a rip-off. Dinks get ripped off just like Nukes so they deserve what little crumbs the government will let them have just like the Nukes. But it's just like a democrat/communist to covet what someone else has.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-22 10:57|| 2019-01-22 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 It was always a pyramid scheme.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-22 11:01|| 2019-01-22 11:01|| Front Page Top

#9 I am sure the DINKS complain about paying high school taxes when they have no children.

Posted by airandee 2019-01-22 12:13|| 2019-01-22 12:13|| Front Page Top

#10 If y'all wanted the country to break even y'all should have thought twice about breaking entire industries. Now I find myself thinking "Don't Microsoft and Alphabet have a combined net worth north of 1.4 trillion? Why not give nationalizing them a shot?"

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-01-22 13:17|| 2019-01-22 13:17|| Front Page Top

#11 If you pay in your whole life how can you be a free rider?

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-22 13:48|| 2019-01-22 13:48|| Front Page Top

#12 There's the problem, Thing. You get 1.4 trillion from Microsoft and you're still $18.6 trillion in debt. Where are you gonna get the rest? And what about all those jobs at Microsoft that are gonna be lost? You gonna set up a food bank for those people?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-22 13:49|| 2019-01-22 13:49|| Front Page Top

#13 In Fact Gen X and later has been paying in with zero expectation of getting any payout.

Boomers are free riders in this ponzi scheme because they have lived longer than initial projects and had fewer kids than the scheme demanded.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-22 13:50|| 2019-01-22 13:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Patently imbecillically stupid and not even wrong.

The problem is that SS is a ponzi scheme, there is zero actual investment. If you're ponzi scheme relies on increasing the population density then it's vastly more damaging to the country than just financially!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-22 15:41|| 2019-01-22 15:41|| Front Page Top

#15 ...compounded by the Johnson administration which did away with 'two books' and treated SS taxes as a pool to be spent on the Great Society programs. As long as the government does it, its not embezzlement.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-22 16:07|| 2019-01-22 16:07|| Front Page Top

#16 If there was a list of things legal for the state to do which it's owners, the citizens cannot do. I think it would shock.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-22 16:17|| 2019-01-22 16:17|| Front Page Top

#17 I am 26 years old. I will never, ever, ever, collect a single penny from Social Security unless I become horrifically disabled at a very young age. By the time I am 62, the program will not exist, and the money I have put in will have been spent by the old people collecting right now. Social Security is a ponzi scheme. If people actually cared about stopping it, everybody under 40 would stop paying NOW, and then be told they would never collect. Because they won't anyways. Instead, we'll stretch it out until the very last year before it all collapses, when the inevitable happens, and then everyone will lose their shit.

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-01-22 17:18|| 2019-01-22 17:18|| Front Page Top

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