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Attn: Clog - all citizens of this country pay their SS taxes. There are no separate mandated systems. Your pay-in now, take-out now system is a bit confused. The SS system was derived to help those that have worked for so long to subsitise themselves at the end of their run.
SS works by me (us) paying (in part) for our parents retirement (to a point - and if you look at the $, we don't do much of that). We pay theirs, our youth pay ours. Another reason to think about the level of education children have today.
Originally this plan started under the "father works, mother stays home to raise the children" program, when dad could earn enough to take of family needs. Those days are gone.
The days of SS are on a short road as well. This program is facing a multi-Trillion deficit from the reign of George the Great, and he's not worried about changing it.
You can't stop paying into SS any more than paying the IRS. They are both necessary evils.
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