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Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:54 am to cbree88
We're all going to receive 100% of what we were promised. They will not raise our tax percentages. What will happen is they will continue to create money out of thin air and we'll be lucky if our checks buy a stick of bubblegum.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:55 am to back9Tiger
quote:Considering that the money doesn’t exist anymore, yes.
So your solution is to take all their money from 30-40 years and say frick it, too bad for you?
It sucks, but those who have been paying in and aren’t retirement age yet have been living without it.
The sacrifice has been made.
Man up.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:57 am to Nado Jenkins83
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They better have my money
Bless your heart if your retirement plan includes social security
Im not factoring that into mine at all
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:57 am to Displaced
quote:well, if you're gonna bring up that pos, we should have prioritized paying ss benefits instead of giving all that war money to grifting fat cats and their politicians on leashes.
should have privatized it back when GWB wanted to.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:57 am to ragincajun03
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Start gradually raising the age to collect benefits up to 67 years old should be Step #1.
the report's scenario has it up to 69 years of age
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:57 am to back9Tiger
Did you guys not save into the greatest stock market run the history has ever seen? Social security benefits should be nothing compared to gains anyways right?
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:57 am to fareplay
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Read above. If they don’t have enough for installments, what makes you think there is enough for a lump sum?
Which is exactly why it wouldn’t work
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:58 am to Scruffy
then cut it and just frick all the old people I don’t care.
They are going to have to refund people in some capacity to avoid people over 65 riots.
The program needs to end. It’s stupid. Let people manage their own money and futures, if they frick it up its on them
They are going to have to refund people in some capacity to avoid people over 65 riots.
The program needs to end. It’s stupid. Let people manage their own money and futures, if they frick it up its on them
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:58 am to faraway
If I had all the money I paid in over the years plus interest, I could retire now.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:58 am to danilo
Exactly, people should eat the loss and remove the program
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:58 am to Scruffy
Man up. What a buffoon.
What sacrifice, we have no choice.
What sacrifice, we have no choice.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:58 am to Scruffy
quote:
Kill it entirely.
If the older generations didn’t plan well enough to survive without that Ponzi scheme, too bad.
Give me my money I've paid in for over 40 years plus interest first
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:59 am to Zzyzx
Agree and there’s also this point: all the useless bullshite spend that you guys voted for over 50 years was all paid somehow.. it just happened to dip into other shite you cared about.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 11:59 am to Scruffy
quote:You must not like geriatrics, that’s predominantly who killing it will affect.
Kill it entirely.
If the older generations didn’t plan well enough to survive without that Ponzi scheme, too bad.
And killing it will kill a bunch of them.
Aside: I don’t much like us myself, especially if I happen to picture most any of us nekkit.
I’m not yet taking it, I was looking forward to receiving it to pay my property operating expenses and overhead.
I’ve paid a bunch in to SS on top of my other regular taxes. Kinda would suck to not get any return on it. It would up my effective tax rate.
I can’t imagine trying to actually live on a Social Security payment.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 12:00 pm to fareplay
Id be ok with the lump sum.. will never happen though .
I calculated a while back that ive paid roughly $300k or $400k into SS so far in my lifetime, my first paycheck with SS taken out was in the late 1900s, specifically the year 1993 when i was 14 .. my $400 k contribution is probably middle of the pack, im sure there are some posters reading this who have contributed much more .
I calculated a while back that ive paid roughly $300k or $400k into SS so far in my lifetime, my first paycheck with SS taken out was in the late 1900s, specifically the year 1993 when i was 14 .. my $400 k contribution is probably middle of the pack, im sure there are some posters reading this who have contributed much more .
Posted on 3/20/26 at 12:00 pm to fareplay
quote:
Did you guys not save into the greatest stock market run the history has ever seen? Social security benefits should be nothing compared to gains anyways right?
Of course, but when you can be adding a couple thousand a month that is now gone, it's nothing more than theft.
I agree it is a ponzi scheme, but I am within 10 years of retirement and they better find an off-ramp to move away from SS for the future.
But it is politicians so I am positive we'll get fricked.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 12:01 pm to back9Tiger
quote:Yes, you had no choice.
What sacrifice, we have no choice.
Now would be the time to make the choice.
Either demand the younger generations support your greed or make the sacrifice for the future of the country and your children.
These threads are telling.
I would drop 50 years of paid SS taxes for the sake of my daughter’s future.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 12:01 pm to fareplay
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Did you guys not save into the greatest stock market run the history has ever seen? Social security benefits should be nothing compared to gains anyways right?
This has frick all to do with them taking money out of your check for decades just for you to suggest you get absolutely nothing for all of those "contributions"
Yes, the market has provided much better returns than SS. Yes, you shouldn't be planning on SS to fund any sort of meaningful retirement on its own.
But that doesn't mean anyone should be ok with all those "contributions" just disappearing. End SS as a program, sure. But you better pay out every cent in the SS fund back to those that "contributed" to it.
Posted on 3/20/26 at 12:01 pm to BurlesonCountyAg
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Or what about cutting fraud, waste, and abuse?
Isn’t that was Elon was supposed to do? Whatever happened there?
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