Let me opt out of SS, let me keep the money I put into it and invest it (or not) the way I want to.
Some of the responses to my column last week, titled "Immoral Beyond Redemption," prove that Americans have been hoodwinked by Congress. Some readers protested my counting Social Security among government handout programs that can be described as Congress' taking what belongs to one American and giving to another, to whom it doesn't belong -- legalized theft. They argued that they worked for 45 years and paid into Social Security and that the money they now receive is theirs. These people have been duped and shouldn't be held totally accountable for such a belief. Let's look at it.
The Social Security pamphlet...
So I don't feel bad is a worker gets a great deal more back than they ever gave into SS. But a good many smart people collect SS, and they, having a profitable business, in old age are finding they really do not need it.
I do not expect them to send it back, but it seems wrong that they can, legally, get more than they ever gave in.
'what a tangled web we weave, when we first endeavor to decieve'.
How simple it could have been if Government had not gotten involved.
I do not know of old Japanese in starvation, but Japan has no SS system at all.