Growth in Social Security Take

[amdx]

social security is going broke.

Sounds kinda like insurance, doesn't it?

Except that the government threatens you with prison if you don't
pay your social security tax.

I hear it constantly, usually from people pretending accidents never
happen. =)

It's not an accident if you don't save for the future.
Opps, I bought a new car, Opps, I put a 42" flat screen tv on my credit
card.
Opps, I bought the whole family each their own 4 wheeler. Opps, we ate out 6
times this week. Accidents happen.
Mike

 

[Ouroboros Rex]

Except that the government threatens you with prison if you don't
pay your social security tax.


It's not an accident if you don't save for the future.

Made-up prejudicial crap. You can have everything you had and ever will
have destroyed by one car wreck or chronic illness, and it doesn't even have
to be yours. Pretending otherwise is simply delusional.

 

[Ouroboros Rex]

I shouldn't point this out, but I will, just for fun ;-)

The more you pump into SS, the more you get back, though nothing like
you would with private investments.

Thus a whole bunch of you yellow-belly leftist-weenies are paying
dearly to provide MY large SS retirement income... Bwahahahahaha ;-)

This is a crucial difference between the right and left wing. The left
wing is fine with your use of the system, because you paid in. It is the
right wing that wants your investment to disappear from some private account
as soon as you get seriously sick, hurt, or sued..

 

[Jim Thompson]

This is a crucial difference between the right and left wing. The left
wing is fine with your use of the system, because you paid in. It is the
right wing that wants your investment to disappear from some private account
as soon as you get seriously sick, hurt, or sued..

Nonsense! It is the left who want to review your health status at age
50 and decide whether you are worth any further maintenance.

...Jim Thompson
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Obama: A reincarnation of Nixon, but without ANY scruples,
masquerading in politically-correct black-face.

 

[Ouroboros Rex]

Nonsense! It is the left who want to review your health status at age
50 and decide whether you are worth any further maintenance.

Simply a lie.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Simply a lie.

Only leftist wusses believe their own propaganda. I won't be
affected. you will.

...Jim Thompson
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Obama: A reincarnation of Nixon, but without ANY scruples,
masquerading in politically-correct black-face.

 

[Ouroboros Rex]

Only leftist wusses believe their own propaganda. I won't be
affected. you will.

Funny, not seeing any refutation here.

 

[Richard the Dreaded Libertarian]

If you're worried about accidents, buy insurance. Making
people buy insurance when they don't want to, for things
they aren't worried about, just drives up the price of insurance,
and the services insured.

Besides, the healthscare issue isn't about insurance, it's that
people want all their day-to-day medical care, for free. Plain old
insurance--against disaster--would be a different, cheaper, and
simpler thing. And the price of ordinary care would drop, too.

One of the problems is that the end consumer is insulated from the real
cost. If, when Taneesha brings little Mobutu to the ER for a skinned knee,
if they sent her the $1500.00 bill, maybe she'd be motivated to buy a
first aid kit and learn how to use it.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[amdx]

Jim, I can't argue that its not _wonderful_ , anytime someone else
buys you something expensive it's wonderful. But is it good for society
as a whole to pay for something you could pay for youself. It might get
into your expensive wine drinking, is that to high a price to pay?
Maybe
Jim would you check my logic and math, I'm not absolutely sure I
have it right, at a 36 multiple. Seems unbelievable, and it's still going
broke.

Mike

The math was verified by others farther up in the thread.
The amount paid into social security by high wage earners has increased
by 36 times since the program started.
Mike