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We did pay for nothing if the program gets cut. Sure we took care of old people, now what? I could have used that money for my own retirement. If the system is still in place then it wasn't for nothing and you'll be using the younger generations tax dollars for your retirement. So it's not all about me, but if I don't get the same benefit why pay in?
That's the whole point of social security. Not social security for a certain generation tax
You paid for "social security". It's literally just right there in the name.
Yeah someone else's. If the program gets cut then who is paying my social security? Oh yeah. No one. So it's social security for a certain generation. I could have used that money for my own retirement, but if the programs cut it was social security for boomers and then alone lol.
It's not "someone else's," it's social security. It's for the entire society.
Like you realize that the old lady down the road isn't literally getting the exact same money that you put in, right? They are just numbers on paper. You pay into a fund that is used to benefit all of society. And it does.
Stop looking at it so selfishly and read about why FDR introduced it in the first place.