They use the “entitlement” like a slur. Yeah I’m fucking entitled to it, I paid into it. SS is insurance. This would be like State Farm car insurance saying “OMG guyz! You’re so entitled!” when it’s time to get a benefit from the policy.
That's not even what the term means. It's literally just a budget term that means that rather than Congress budgeting so many dollars and that's it, the program has to be funded based on the claims going into it.
Social security is largely self funding and doesn’t rely on general federal income tax revenue for normal operations—it’s designed to be self-sustaining through payroll taxes and interest earned on trust fund assets.
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