NO, and I will make a comparison to prove otherwise.
Since the Social Security ACT has been enacted, it is mandated that every employee MUST pay into SS and there is NO legal way to opt out of SS. Those contributions that are mandated to be paid are YOUR funds and under the SS Act those funds are entitled to those eligible to collect at age of determined retirement.
When Congressman Paul first was elected, he was given the option to opt out of the Congressional Retirement Fund in which he did. This CRF is taxpayer funded and throughout his congressional career, Dr. Paul has voted against any legislation or programs that lay a burden on the taxpayers. Because of his decision to opt out, he will NOT collect a Congressional Retirement pension.
Dr. Paul has continuously proposed a plan where younger workers should have the option to opt out of Social Security and use that money to fund their own independent retirement plan. His proposal also would use the funds that are spent on illegal wars and foreign aid which total into the billions to be used instead to shore up SS and Medicare until a pragmatic plan can be in place to slowly phase out or reform those plans.
So in essence, to call Ron Paul hypocritical is a oxy-moron in the sense, SS is a program he was forced to pay into...
Since the Social Security ACT has been enacted, it is mandated that every employee MUST pay into SS and there is NO legal way to opt out of SS. Those contributions that are mandated to be paid are YOUR funds and under the SS Act those funds are entitled to those eligible to collect at age of determined retirement.
When Congressman Paul first was elected, he was given the option to opt out of the Congressional Retirement Fund in which he did. This CRF is taxpayer funded and throughout his congressional career, Dr. Paul has voted against any legislation or programs that lay a burden on the taxpayers. Because of his decision to opt out, he will NOT collect a Congressional Retirement pension.
Dr. Paul has continuously proposed a plan where younger workers should have the option to opt out of Social Security and use that money to fund their own independent retirement plan. His proposal also would use the funds that are spent on illegal wars and foreign aid which total into the billions to be used instead to shore up SS and Medicare until a pragmatic plan can be in place to slowly phase out or reform those plans.
So in essence, to call Ron Paul hypocritical is a oxy-moron in the sense, SS is a program he was forced to pay into...
NO, and I will make a comparison to prove otherwise.
Since the Social Security ACT has been enacted, it is mandated that every employee MUST pay into SS and there is NO legal way to opt out of SS. Those contributions that are mandated to be paid are YOUR funds and under the SS Act those funds are entitled to those eligible to collect at age of determined retirement.
When Congressman Paul first was elected, he was given the option to opt out of the Congressional Retirement Fund in which he did. This CRF is taxpayer funded and throughout his congressional career, Dr. Paul has voted against any legislation or programs that lay a burden on the taxpayers. Because of his decision to opt out, he will NOT collect a Congressional Retirement pension.
Dr. Paul has continuously proposed a plan where younger workers should have the option to opt out of Social Security and use that money to fund their own independent retirement plan. His proposal also would use the funds that are spent on illegal wars and foreign aid which total into the billions to be used instead to shore up SS and Medicare until a pragmatic plan can be in place to slowly phase out or reform those plans.
So in essence, to call Ron Paul hypocritical is a oxy-moron in the sense, SS is a program he was forced to pay into and he is only exercising his right to receive the benefits he is entitled to. He has stated if SS was a program when he first started in the work force gave him a option to opt out, he would have done it without question. That option was and still is not available.
(more)Since the Social Security ACT has been enacted, it is mandated that every employee MUST pay into SS and there is NO legal way to opt out of SS. Those contributions that are mandated to be paid are YOUR funds and under the SS Act those funds are entitled to those eligible to collect at age of determined retirement.
When Congressman Paul first was elected, he was given the option to opt out of the Congressional Retirement Fund in which he did. This CRF is taxpayer funded and throughout his congressional career, Dr. Paul has voted against any legislation or programs that lay a burden on the taxpayers. Because of his decision to opt out, he will NOT collect a Congressional Retirement pension.
Dr. Paul has continuously proposed a plan where younger workers should have the option to opt out of Social Security and use that money to fund their own independent retirement plan. His proposal also would use the funds that are spent on illegal wars and foreign aid which total into the billions to be used instead to shore up SS and Medicare until a pragmatic plan can be in place to slowly phase out or reform those plans.
So in essence, to call Ron Paul hypocritical is a oxy-moron in the sense, SS is a program he was forced to pay into and he is only exercising his right to receive the benefits he is entitled to. He has stated if SS was a program when he first started in the work force gave him a option to opt out, he would have done it without question. That option was and still is not available.
Ron Paul is a saint not a hypocrite. If you don't believe me just ask his disillusioned followers.
Typical
FDR and bunch studied the actuarial tables very closely when they crafted the bill. The winners of this little "lottery" were supposed to be a handful of white grandmothers and spinsters.
Thanks to strides in our medical system and a better understanding of nutrition, the average lifespan is almost a score of years longer. The "pay for itself" system has become the nation's largest pyramid scheme. The old ride on the backs of the young, ad infinitum.
Thirty years later, SS was still in the black. The progressives couldn't stand to see something not operating in the red. Sizable chunks of the SS fund were "borrowed" to prop up the "Great Society".
Since then, SS has grown to be the great sacred cow that both parties have "improved". Shoot the flawed system, not the messenger.
He knows that the system is corrupt and unconstitutional and will not be solvent for the future generations so believes that anyone who is young and starting out in a career no matter what it may be should be forced to put into it. He would slowly like to see it disolved and future generation can save or invest their money as they see fit.
Social Securiety is not welfare ... food stamps are a form of welfare where the recipient gets something for nothing in too many cases. Illegals, parents of anchor babies, is a good example of getting something for nothing.
Oh, I know! Because they all are paid off by big financieers. We need to get the money out of politics if we are going to get any real change.
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Ron Paul considers Social Security unconstitutional and he has tried for many years for the program to be "phased out" Meaning Gradual!. He says that the Social Security system is in "bad shape ... "The numbers aren't there"; funds are disapearing because Congress borrows from Social Security funds every year to fund the budget. Ron Paul's budget proposal for 2013 would guarantee to uphold Social Security commitments to older workers while allowing Americans under 25 to opt out of participating in the program.
This questions is so ridiculously misleading and False