^More uneducated rambling.Sonic1 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:53 pmJohnsel if Trump cut your social security in half because it is an evil socialist program, would you support that? I think I remember you saying that your main source of income was $1500 monthly SSI. Or is that some good sociaisim because it directly benefits you ?
Most US workers pay into the Social Security program through payroll taxes their entire lives. Each individual pays 6.2% of their annual salary plus each employer pays another 6.2% of each workers salary into the Social Security fund. It was not intended to be a socialist welfare program for all, but a forced retirement savings program.
It was lame-brained socialist Democrats who turned that original program intent into the mess SS has become, by allowing people who barely contributed into the SS/Medicare system by working very little over their lifetimes to draw out a much higher amount than was ever put in that system by them or on their behalf.
So if Trump (or any president) took away half of retirees SS income, for many citizens that would be outright theft of money that is rightfully theirs. But some others were never entitled to so much money in retirement anyway.