silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoDOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administrationwww.semafor.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down12
arrow-up1159arrow-down1external-linkDOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administrationwww.semafor.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareechutaaa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·6 hours agolol it was always just extra income tax to anyone under 40. Only fools expected to see that money come back.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·6 hours agoIt was always a substitute for paying to maintain your parents or grandparents in retirement. Unless you’re an immigrant, you’ve already been getting it back.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoYour parents and grandparents also paid contributions, didn’t they?
minus-squaremeeeeetch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·39 minutes agoThe money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.
lol it was always just extra income tax to anyone under 40. Only fools expected to see that money come back.
It was always a substitute for paying to maintain your parents or grandparents in retirement. Unless you’re an immigrant, you’ve already been getting it back.
Your parents and grandparents also paid contributions, didn’t they?
The money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.