Originally Posted by Stickfight
Originally Posted by Blackheart
You earned that money, the gov't took it, you're entitled to it. You always were.

As usual, you are not correct. I should be past surprise that you boomers lived your entire lives without bothering to learn anything about how these government programs work, but it still gets me.

Anyway, SS is funded via a tax. You have no contractual right to what you paid in because of that, and the money is not protected by the 5th Amendment. What you have is entitlement to benefits under the program if you qualify which you cannot be denied without Due Process.
Which does nothing to negate the fact that SS has been funded with a 12% to 15% portion of my wages since I turned 18. A "tax" collected with solemn assurances it would be returned to us at a later stage of life.

Not to mention Medicare which has been collected at 13% of my wages for my entire life. (Albeit, with a few short years of reduced tax rate.)

Entitled...YES. By the true definition of the word.


People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.