Re: NY Times Story on Pilot Population Decline

Larry Dighera wrote:

I am not taxed for Social Security. I contribute into it.

If it is required by the government it is a tax. If anyone gets more out of
it than they put into it is a income redistribution welfare program.

When taken together about 15% of every dime I have earned in my 30 years in
the labor pool has been paid into SS & Medicare. If I had been allowed to
keep that money and invest it in even a conservative investment I could
retire right now, finish my airplane and never be in anyway a cost to
society. The Social Security Administration is a terrible investment manager
and Medicare is a mediocre health insurance policy at best.


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