On 2006-04-29, Kent West penned: > Mumia W wrote: >> Social Security is a government program. There's nothing wrong >> about using taxes to support a government program. > > So you're in favor of forcing Person A, at the point of a gun, to > give his hard-earned dollars to Person B? Because at the basics, > that's what it is. >
But that happens all the time. People who don't drive still pay taxes for roads. People who don't have children pay taxes for schools. People who have no interest in nature pay taxes to preserve national parks. I agree that social security is all sorts of screwed up, but not because it involves collecting money and spending it in ways that might not directly benefit the person paying. Not unless you're against taxes of all forms, which is possibly an entirely different argument. (Just looked at my paycheck; wow, social security is about 1.5x what I'm withholding for state income tax. A little less than 1/3 of federal. It's definitely a large chunk of money, and I have zero expectation of seeing a SS payout when I retire. I don't even want it. I want to kill off this whole screwed up social security system, and if that means I pay SS for my parents, then don't get any when I retire, I'm honestly okay with that. I don't want to see my nieces and nephew burdened with paying this stuff.) -- monique Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
