programmer_guy
True ex-Scientologist
Yes.Are you trying to say that after a lifetime of paying into it, which is the only way one is eligible to collect in retirement, that when you're collecting your money you're now dependent upon the government?
Social Security is not the same as, say, investing in an S&P 500 Index account for many years.
Your Social Security payments go to other people while you are still employed.
If you were investing in an S&P 500 Index account for many years those payments go to no one else.
Social Security is one item of socialism.
(No, I am not a U.S. political party Democrat. )