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Originally Posted by Danzig

no.
assuming you've paid in as an employee, and are now reaping your benefits that you paid for. you may get back all you put in, or more, or less....but you paid for it.

You were taxed, with that as the premise, to support a program destined to fail. You were lied to. One has nothing to do with the other.

We pay, as taxpayers, for a lot of stupid and useless stuff. In fact, that's a likely characterization of the majority of government expenditures.

The program will fail unless it is gracefully tapered off for future generations so they can be independently self reliant through their own investements. We do have to fulfill the promise to those retiring, but those young enough should be freed from the burden of this terrible program.