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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Like I’m ever getting social security

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Social security insolvency is a myth perpetuated by the rich. Social security is sustainable if we just raise the cap so income over ~200k gets taxed as well. The rich want to make it seem like this isn’t an option and that social security going bankrupt is inevitable and the people just need to accept that and move on.

    Don’t accept the myth, only accept what your owed.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      SS insolvency is not related to whether or not I get it. The government can just say “fuck you” and unless I’ve spent a trillion bucks a year on bombs for 40 years there’s nothing I can do.

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• Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We should appropriate 75% of the wealth of every person with a net worth over like $100-MM. short of that, remove the cap on FICA.

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• Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Shitposts can tell a little truth, as a treat.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s not true, though, because lawmakers don’t pay social security. Taxpayers do.

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• yakko@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ah yes, antisocial insecurity

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Image

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• iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s funny cause all those who’ve paif in and passed away without kin and all the people working under fake ID’s alias paying in legit, yet never collecting. I bet if one does the math its an unaccounted for surplus

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Could be, but there's also population growth. It's not really a surplus if it's an ongoing balance between incoming and outgoing with an above zero balance that fluctuates. You don't want it to dip below zero.

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• folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is literally how all insurance works. Everyone pays into a pool to help the individuals that need it, knowing it could be them. Ideally, government insurance doesn’t also make a profit.

  Social security isn’t a piggy bank. That’s what retirement savings are for.

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  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Social security literally just is collective retirement savings

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    • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Honest question: how is it different from de facto insurance when you don’t get to withdraw everything you put into it, or pass it down when you die? I would like to know where my understanding of it is incorrect.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The last part is exactly what they want you to think. It WAS meant to be sufficient, but that would have cost someone else, so they invented the idea of people taking care of themselves with the 401K invention. Now when your SS doesn't mean your needs, they can point and say, well, you should have saved up better.

    There used to be company pensions too, but they've slowly eroded away as younger people entered their jobs. My job gave me the option years ago of keeping the pension going or converting it to a secondary 401k that would earn lots of money, promise. I said hell no, give me my pension.

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    • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But isn’t thay the reality now? Even though it wasn’t meant that way, it has been changed over the years. I’m genuinely curious. I’m not saying it should be that way, just that my understanding of how it works was that you can’t expect to get your deductions back.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They do owe me social security, actually. Pay up, kier starmer

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m collecting, along with my state pension.

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Incorrect. Taxpayers owe the government Social Security. You think lawmakers pay you their own money?

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