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Lettuce Be

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3. Why are they calling it an "entitlement program?" It is not

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2023, 04:56 PM

Jan 2023

We pay in, our employers pay in, and that is the rub. They want to eliminate your employer needing to contribute, thus lowering their taxes, and you get less compensation. Win/Lose.

It is not now nor was it ever an entitlement and I'm really tired of the way our media uses language to purposely obfuscate what social security even is.

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