It is my understanding that the money being put into SS now is paying for the people that are collecting now. Not what we have put in. I have also maxed out SS every year. Being self employed most of my life I paid double SS, the employers portion and the employees portion until the last couple of years when it was changed. I am not, nor have I ever complained about paying my fair share of taxes. We all agree they are necessary. We are and always will be "entitled" to collect SS benifits. Retirement supplement for all working people is why it was set up in the first place. If the goverment would leave their grubby hands out of it there would be plenty of money in SS! IT IS NOT their slush fund to use as they please! Contrary to what they might think! There should be laws protecting the SS fund. Do you seriously think that congress is going to pass them? Not a chance! They would be cutting their slush fund. If SS was used the way it was originally intended there would be a huge amount of money to fund it and your monthly checks would be much higher. Legal and illegal imigrants come to this country, never work a day, put their hand out and we give them everything. Something is very wrong with this picture! That's my story and I am sticking to it!
