badgenome said:
Once again, the employee - not the employer - pays the social security tax. Your entire position is a bunch of conspiratorial nonsense. Republicans hate poor people! Paul Ryan wants to destroy social security! So do business leaders even though they won't say it but I know they do! Social security is good until 2037 and if not that's not social security's fault! Government-run pension programs require good governance, something that isn't exactly in abundance here. I'm glad things are working out so swimmingly for your little country with its 20 million people, but what works for 20 million isn't going to work for 310 million. Just as a ton of people can run a million dollar business, only very few have the wherewithal to run a billion dollar business and fucking nobody on Earth is smart enough to run a multi-trillion dollar business. The federal government of the US needs to come clean about their little Ponzi scheme and then butt the fuck out of people's lives. |
And who pays the employee? What I've said before is if something doesn't come around that replaces social security as a mandatory savings for retirement, employers are going to aim for the 10% unemployed who are willing to work for the wage minus the payroll tax. so if the government no longer gets it, and the employee no longer gets it, where do you think it goes to?
This is the problem with conservatives, in particular American conservatives, who pay some of the lowest taxes in the western world, yet they believe they have the right to whinge that they're getting raped by the government. Do you honestly believe government services are run by unicorns and pixie farts? Why don't you take a look at the good and honest battlers who are taking it tough to make ends meet and then come back with a serious face and tell me that you believe the rich are right to whinge about paying too much.
