I began my working life at 14 washing dishes in a truck stop just outside of Sedalia, Missouri. Yes, back in 1976 labor laws permitted this. Fortunately it was only for the summer and then I went off to boarding school. However. The Social Security Administration saw fit to begin taxing me for SS and Medicare just like everybody else. I recently made the mistake of looking into the Black Box of SSA to find out just how much I’ve paid into it since I started working. And without oversharing, let’s just say it’s six figures. Now at age 70 (if I don’t die first), the SSA will pull out their largest eyedropper and deign to give me back a monthly stipend of my own money, totalling $2,200. At that amount, I may recoup all of my money on my 143rd birthday. I may will myself to live long enough to do just that.
According to a report the other day, DOGE now has…
