My response to: Social security taking $52 of my $56 in overtime

I hate the Social Security tax.

To me, it doesn't make sense.

Why am I paying my entire overtime check for the improbable promise that I'll someday see it again in the form of checks from the government? According to statistics, I'm never going to see that money again because some idiot president saw the Social Security bank account and went, "I need to fund a war. But how? *evil grin* I know! I'll steal it from generations to come!" In an odd way, this dude stole money from the future. Yeah, he stole it and used it then, but the elderly people then weren't feeling the loss. MY generation will. Yet I'm still paying the damn tax.

Don't get me wrong. I know and understand that the old people who get the money from Social Security can't pay that tax; they aren't getting a whole hell of a lot of money form Social Security anyways... More than I am, but then again, what's the point of getting money from Social Security then turning around and paying them? (It's like teachers and policemen... Their checks are signed by taxpayers' dollars, and yet they still pay the taxes. It doesn't make sense.)

I blame the government for being idiots.

The “American Standard” of living is I want it- NOW. It’s what they call “Instant Gratification.” Don’t think about the consequences! Live in the NOW! Go with the flow, man! And it seems like all politicians are only concerned with instant gratification. Have you seen the cars they drive??!? Seeing the Hummers and the luxury cars with the gov’t license plates makes me nervous. If they can’t spend their own money responsibly, how well do you think they’re going to spend your tax dollars? Seeing a senator in an old, used-three-times-over, beat-up Oldsmobile would make me feel a lot more comfortable. I’m just sayin’.