Conservatives Hate Obama More Than They Love America

[genderhazard]

Originally Posted by Lord T Hawkeye

No legal requirement to reap the benefits but there is to pay into it. It's called taxes.

Exactly. From the Social security web site.

Question
Can I opt out of Social Security?

Can I withdraw taxes that I have paid for Social Security coverage?

Answer

No.

The law also does not permit a refund of Social Security taxes. The authority for the collection of taxes, including Social Security taxes, is found in the Internal Revenue Code, not the Social Security Act. (See sections 3101(a) and 3102(a) of the Code.) We suggest that you direct any questions you may have about tax liability to that Agency for consideration. The address is:

Internal Revenue Service
1111 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20224.

As part of the 1939 Amendments, the Title VIII taxing provisions were taken out of the Social Security Act and placed in the Internal Revenue Code.

The 1935 Social Security Act http://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html#TITLE I

This law established two social insurance programs on a national scale to help meet the risks of old age and unemployment:

a Federal system of old-age benefits for retired workers who had been employed in industry and commerce, and a Federal-State system of unemployment insurance.

What should be an insurance premimum is a tax. One I can't opt out of and am not assured payment.

Ain't government wonderful.

And BOHICA with Health care reform.