Social Security has been a ponzi scheme to force retirement benefits since 1938.
The worker to retiree ratio has steadily decreased and the tax rates gone up over years.
The Social Security Trust Fund is just a floating accounting -- the count of the 'take' from the taxation. It is 'invested' in government notes. The government can change the terms they took the money from you for anytime the want. If you did this in private business you would be arrested and convicted.
Social Security is an ethical government contract <= BIGLY oxymoron.
If the US Government wants to settle with me they can send me a check for all the Social Security and Medicare taxes I paid for 20 years adjusted for inflation with 12% interest -- then exempt me from Social Security and Medicare.
Do that for Millions and you will see how inflation will rise -- there is no winning really. Their currency -- their game. That is one reason the euro zone is self destructing -- currency policy. That is one reason why the Winklevoss Bitcoin EFT was denied by the SEC
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/b...-rejected.html losing control of the currency is the US Government's worse nightmare.
So they will pay me off my Social Security and Medicare the same way I paid for my parents but with a lower payee ratio and higher taxation -- aided by more inflation -- and the cycle continues until is collapses one day.