Originally Posted by woj

great, except social security (payroll) "tax" is not really a "tax", it's a contribution to a "Social Security Trust Fund" so later when you retire you get back what you put in... (at least that's what they keep telling people )... so a better way of looking at it, might be as a forced savings...

so it's not quite in the same category as "federal income tax", which gets taken away from you, is spent foolishly, never to be seen again...