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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Friday, July 24, 2015

This & that....Fleecing Uncle Sam...Attacking Social Security...



Social Security
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a
*Federal Benefit Payment*?
I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it
because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money
paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to
Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our
income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in
social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved!
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out
only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger *Ponzi scheme* than Bernie Madoff ever did.
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. (Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add
insult to injury, they're calling it a *benefit*, as if we never
worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.
Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.







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Meanwhile the Tea Party believes the liberals are coming after their guns and sending them to FEMA camps. The truth is the Koch Brothers' puppets are after your Social Security and what they THINK are "entitlement" programs.
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Meanwhile the Tea Party believes the liberals are coming after their guns and sending them to FEMA camps. The truth is the Koch Brothers' puppets are after your Social Security and now Medicare.
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Who gives a fuck about Meek Mill & his weak ass twitter beef...


Of America’s 100 highest-paid CEOs, 29 raked in more in pay in 2013 (the latest data available) than their company paid in federal income taxes, according to this report from the Institute for Policy Studies. Among them were Boeing, General Motors, and Verizon. Their CEOs averaged $32 million each. The rest of us pay for all the public services these corporations receive.
There is no justification for corporations to reward one individual, no matter how talented, more than these corporations contribute to the cost of the public services needed for their businesses to succeed. Rather than more tax breaks, Congress must stop the use of tax havens, eliminate wasteful corporate subsidies, and close loopholes that encourage excessive executive compensation.
What do you think?

A growing number of corporations spend more on executive compensation than federal income taxes.
IPS-DC.ORG

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