jim rozen wrote:

In article , Harold & Susan Vordos says...

taken from us by the system. Now that they've taken our money, we want it
back as promised.

Harold you still don't 'get' it.

There was no promise.

There's only a tax - an income redistribution.

This tax takes money from workes and gives it
to old or disabled folks. It's not a bad idea.

But I've been given no promise, neither were
you. Only a bill that says, "pay this much,
or else you go to jail."

You're right in the sense that there was never a promise to give back
the money that was paid in as SS tax. On the other hand, there has
always been a promise (certainly implied, but also I believe
explicitly voiced by various Congressmen and Presidents over the
years) that SS would still be around to provide at least *some*
retirement benefits for everyone who contributed.

Bert