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    7 months ago

    Maybe you’ve never looked at your payroll taxes, but you pay separately into Social Security. It’s independent from state and federal taxes.

    I guess I’m fit enough to derive your intended thought from that garbled confusion of democratically socialized taxation and Darwinism. Lol

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        Social Security is not taxation. It’s a government socialized retirement program, independent of state and federal taxes.

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            It’s compulsory, but withdrawn separately from your gross income. You’ll see it listed as a separate line on your pay stubs as well as your income tax form.

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                  Great, but it’s paid by taxes on the poor since it is capped up to a certain income. The rich pay less

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                    There’s also a maximum payout every month. Technically speaking, it pays out more for people who live longer, so you’d be more correct in saying it’s taxes on the unhealthy.

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                  If it’s not a tax, the government doesn’t have the right to require you to pay it. The Constitution actually outlines what the federal government can do. Everything else is the left to the States or the right of the individual

                  For example, in the constitutional challenge of Obamacare, it was ruled a tax, therefore constitutional.