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Originally Posted by Brujah
The top 5% earned over 1/3rd of all income, not just 5% of all income.
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That's the point. The top 5% of anything are always the "top".
So they kicked ass and earned 1/3 of all income...yet still pay 53% (over 1/2) of ALL taxes. While 50% of people pay no taxes at all.
Yet...everybody gets the same exact social benefits. No wait...the richer folks do NOT get the same amount of benefits because the benefits and social safety net is by definition NOT intended for them.
And now I hear congress floating the idea of people who are wealthy not getting their social security! Even though social security is supposed to be you getting back your own money.
It has been bankrupted by the feds so badly that now they are going to break the entire "promise" on which Social Security was originally founded.
It's insane.
For instance...my wife's mother was killed when she was only 22 years old. My wife was 2 years old. Her older brother was 4 her younger brother was only a few months old.
Somehow, that meant that she and her brothers received social security checks until they were 18!!!
Her mom had only worked a couple of small jobs and had paid no more than a couple of hundred bucks into the system. But the federal govt. paid her brothers and her $400 each every month for all those years! That's $1,200 a month going to people who never put shit into the system to begin with.
Meanwhile, people work all their lives and now have to worry about getting their money back from social security.
It's all fucked up.
