I’m on the clock today. I figured I’d torture you super cool people with my Sunday morning rant.
I frequently mention that I crawled on the ground for 42 years. That’s just a precursor to this rant.
Thirty-five of those years I was self-employed. That means I paid both fica and self-employment tax. That’s double. Ninety-nine percent of floor installers are paying double. That’s not counting the payroll tax I paid on employees over the years.
I took early retirement at 62. I’m 64 now and SSA allows me to earn, of all the weird numbers, the utterly outrageous amount of $22,300 this year before they dip their grimy fingers into my government pension. And make no mistake, they don’t hesitate to reach into seniors’ pockets. They even allow use old folks to pay back our pension fund using a credit card. Lovely, I suppose the gov’t also supports predatory lending.
Anyway, currently an eighteen year old worker will have to slave away for nearly fifty years before the government will give back a little bit of their money every month without penalty. I don’t dare die, cause I’ll never have a chance to break even.
As bad as things currently are, if cHump and his republicants get in office it’s only a matter of time before they gut social security for the sake of enriching greedy corporations and the one percent that run and own them.
So, vote BLUE, up and down the ticket and for the super cool humans Harris & Walz.
/rant.
Enjoy your Sunday FloorGeeks.
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