It would be people making over 168. The current cap is at 168k
So yes, it would raise my taxes with a wealth distribution.
So you make above the cap? So you pay nothing?
Would you reject SS payments when your of age? You didn’t put in right?
So you’re saying that having never paid into a system, and despite that you have access to benefits whether you pay or not, you consider it too much to bear to start paying anything?
Again at best the argument is you’re selfish.
I put into SS. The amount I receive is capped but I pay more into the system then I’ll receive in a benefit.
It’s selfish to say to keep my own money? That’s the opposite of selfish. It’s selfish to expect me to fund your retirement.
SS doesn’t fund people’s retirement it’s not an extravagant pension, it keeps the elderly out of poverty.
You pay for roads you don’t drive on, I pay for schools for kids I don’t have, get over it. Selfishness isn’t a virtue.
You are not rejecting the system making you a benefactor, by your own logic that ship has sailed. Congrats you’ve already contributed, and you’re not a slave and atlas has not shrugged.
Right now you’re just making up reasons to be selfish… like you personally funding the nation’s retirements. Get over it.
I don’t see it selfish to keep my own money. That’s a weird view of being selfish
Get over the desire to take money from other. It’s theft and the system isn’t sustainable. People should be personally responsible for their retirement.
SS needs to be sunset and people need to save for their own retirement.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 7 months ago
We should abandon elderly people to destitution, grow homeless encampment, for what? So you can retire on a fatter cushion?
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So we should scam more people because the elderly got scammed?
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Lol, if anyone’s getting scammed it’s me! People often collect more social security than they put in. I’ve only been paying into since I began working, and have another 30 or so years before I can start collecting.
So, yes, we should continue paying out social security because our entire society is a scam. It’s the least we can do.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m glad you’re honest about social security and new deal policies. Though I don’t understand why you’d want to double down on them.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That is the issue. The system doesn’t work. It is just a wealth transfer which I am against.
I would support taking the 12% and putting it into a private retirement account.
It is unfair to ask the top 5% or 50% to pay for the bottom 50%. I already pay more than my fair share of taxes. People won’t take taxation seriously until they feel the pain. Spreading the pain across everyone may cause people to stop demanding more spending.
We have a spending problem in this country and it can’t be solved by taxation.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The Inuits use to push the elderly out on an ice flow.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Sure. So what? Is that your social prescription for the elderly: help them along to the final stage of life?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They do it in Canada and Europe. Isn’t that the more humane option ?