[jc3900]

Mr. Priceless: The actual tax you are paying though is 12.4%. The 15% that I quoted includes medicare, which in my mind should also be ousted asap. Anyway, the thing that kills me about ss and all the other entitlements is that they are forced charity and an awfully inefficiant charities at that. My only question is why can't I opt out. How come if I get a job pretty much anywhere in the united states do I have to pay into it. Here is another, very important, thing to think about. How in the world did the United States go a 150 years without these programs? What happened to the poor then. They did not starve to death. So, the argument that we absolutley need these programs doesn't work as we went without them for so many years.


Oh and someone should put that benjamin franklin quote. It went along the lines of the countries that give the most to the poor, have the most poor people.