re: In just a few years, the average retiree will be receiving 37% more in SS than he paid in

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Are you freaking kidding me. They confiscated my money for 40 years you a-hole. The effective return is meager as hell compared to the market index.

And you want to steal 25% of my money.

frick you.

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This is a 100 irrelevant. You are speaking purely in hypotheticals. The “market returns” you speak of were not earned; not by you and not by the govt, because the money was never invested. How can you be owed something that you never had?

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Are you freaking kidding me. They confiscated my money for 40 years you a-hole.

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It's a tax like all other taxes.

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You obviously don't understand a goddamm thing about return on investment.

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Again, do you do this analysis for all of your taxes?

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You pay your fricking student loans back like I did and leave my shite alone.

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When people talk about Student Loans or Ukraine when discussing SS, it shows how little they understand.

What we've sent to Ukraine is about (or a little less than) 1 month of SS payments.

SL repayments would be about 13 months

SS spending is on another universe than anything other than Medicare, Medicaid, and military spending