You own $10 of which the bank has custody. It's your property. Subject to certain defined rules, the bank must return it to you or transfer it to someone you authorize to get it, on demand.
With Socialist Insecurity, you own no part of the bogus "assets" of the nonexistent "trust fund". Nothing's yours, the $$$ you were forced to "contribute" is gone, & whatever you get is what Congress deigns to give you. it's a welfare transfer payment program with a dedicated tax, & a payout formula that has been based on past pay-ins.
The concept of rights & ownership is "all ideology" too if our masters can ignore them.
January 6, 2013
Congress has just raised payroll taxes. It has done it before, and will do it again.
Our august solons excuse themselves, however, by pleading that the 2 percentage point hike is merely the sunset of a tax holiday. And necessary to shore up a faltering system.
It’s not a triumph of responsibility, though.
What is responsibility? Every year the Social Security Administration sends out a helpful note to its “clients” about how much we’ve contributed in payroll taxes. The kindly bureaucrats also warn us not to...
you're attempting to debate with (oddly enough) an on topic troll.