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Occidentalist 2 points ago +2 / -0

Social security - you get what you pay in. Well in theory. You're entitled to it because you paid it as a separate and specific thing.

Just because you've paid taxes doesn't mean you've paid towards snap. I've paid taxes and never used snap.

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Occidentalist 2 points ago +2 / -0

How the fuck is this okay?

How are your going to punish success and say, with a straight face, that you're trying to improve the country?

How are you going to say the country is fair and equal and then demand money from people who make over a certain amount of money but none from others who make less than that amount?

How is this not a gross violation of the equal protection clause? This is a blatant violation of treating everyone the same, saying the tax law applies to one group of people but not another.

So fuck it, what should my wife and I do, negate the efforts we've made in our careers to both top 150k in order to take lesser positions we held 15 years ago in order to dip under 150k a year so that the government doesn't take money from us?