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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mama Bear who wrote (84938)	11/6/2000 9:42:03 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 132070

mb, >>Take my case. I am a middle-class person who has usually had multiple jobs throughout my life. Over 30 years, I have "contributed" some $75,000 to Social Security and about $16,000 to Medicare. Sometimes my employer has paid part of the bill. But like many Americans I have had independent contractor jobs in which I have paid the entire onerous payroll tax bill myself. << my case is much worse. as is most people's my age. btw, i KNOW i'm right. ss is about as inefficient as you can get and it is typical govt trying to get folks to NEED it. we have debated this issue for a week or two and NOT ONE SINGLE COGENT ARGUMENT WAS MADE TO JUSTIFY SS AS A DECENT PROGRAM FOR THE MASSES. not one. very telling. said argument doesn't exist.