akuma - When you become well-to-do as a lawyer, making over $100,000/yr, I hope you realize that when the federal government takes 35% of your taxes, that they do so to give it to incompetent fools in many cases that did nothing to deserve your blood, sweat, and time spent on learning such a great practice.
Why weren't you in my thread I created concerning the failure that is Social Security? Do you realize that SS pays out almost no interest? Why should the government create a system that pays out almost no interest? How is that a 'good' program? At 1.23% interest per year (after inflation), I tend to think that is not a very good investment for anyone. You can go to most banks and get a CD that earns higher interest rates than what SS pays out.
Thank God for alternative retirement methods. Social Security is the biggest waste of money ever created. Argue all you want, Akuma, about how it helped people, but the fact is that any retirement system would have done the same, or better.
Better yet, I advise you to look up retirement plans by various States that offer far better rates of interest than Social Security. How is it fair that a state or city worker gets 10% a year interest, is exempt from paying into SS, while everyone else is forced into such a horrible system?
I understand the need to require people to save, but this is the absolute worst way to do it.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
