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Originally Posted by dknv
I hope you realize, that if you are putting in a lot of (legitimate) work now, you are already paying for other people's situation, through required 'donations', I mean, deductions, to social security/medicare, not to mention federal income tax. Ouch. And for social security - well good luck getting that investment back. No mean-ness intended, it just appears to be the reality of the system.
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Tell me about it - one nice thing about keeping State employment is the contribution to SS stops, and I actually have some control over the substitute. In reality, SS and Medicare are nothing more than additional involuntary taxes, just without the name.