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If you are in the belief that receiving Social Security is, "Living off the government"? Where do you think the money from social security comes from? It comes from the working people. Social security is the working-class people's money. The US government just snatches it up from our wages, then provides trickle-down economics on OUR money. It should have never been used as another welfare system.
What perturbs me about the US Social Security system is the way it calculates "computation years". The general rule is the Social Security Administration will take 35 of your highest-earning years and get an average earnings level from those numbers. Well, my highest-earning years like most Americans is typically the last 35 years that you have worked. I started working and contributing to SS when I was 16 years old. The government says that you can early retire at 62 years old but a penalty will be assessed on your SS check. Well, why am I not getting credit for paying into SS from the ages of 16 years to 27 years old? Thats 11 years for contributing into SS that I am not getting credit. Taking this unjust and discriminatory system one step further. An immigrant comes to this country when they are 27 years old. They work and start paying SS and can early retire at 62 years old. If they made the same money as I did for 35 years, their check will be the same as mine. That is Bull-Pucky. Why am I being discriminated against in the SS system because I was born American and contributed longer?
What perturbs me about the US Social Security system is the way it calculates "computation years". The general rule is the Social Security Administration will take 35 of your highest-earning years and get an average earnings level from those numbers. Well, my highest-earning years like most Americans is typically the last 35 years that you have worked. I started working and contributing to SS when I was 16 years old. The government says that you can early retire at 62 years old but a penalty will be assessed on your SS check. Well, why am I not getting credit for paying into SS from the ages of 16 years to 27 years old? Thats 11 years for contributing into SS that I am not getting credit. Taking this unjust and discriminatory system one step further. An immigrant comes to this country when they are 27 years old. They work and start paying SS and can early retire at 62 years old. If they made the same money as I did for 35 years, their check will be the same as mine. That is Bull-Pucky. Why am I being discriminated against in the SS system because I was born American and contributed longer?