Dugdale_Jukes
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- Dec 30, 2012
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It's time to save people from the forced poverty of Social Security.
Let them save their money in accounts they own. And get the fucking government out of the picture.
People will retire richer and actually be able to leave money to their families.
Can you put a little bread around that baloney?
If a person saved the 15% of their lifetime income they would have more money on which to retire.
I've done this before many times but you sheep won't listen.
If we say that a person makes the median income of the US of about 43K a year.
Now If you want to start whining that no one makes that when they are young stop now.
I am going to assume that a person makes this amount for his entire career. That should even things out enough for the purposes of this illustration.
The current FICA taxes are 7.65% from employees and the same from employers for a total of 15.3%
15.3% of 43k is 6579 a year or 548.25 a month.
If one saves 548.25 a month for 45 years (age 22 to age 67) and gets average return of
5% he would have $1,111,003.69 that would provide an income of 4000 a month for nearly 40 years. The maximum SS income is 2500 a month and our person would not be getting close to that.
Aside from the irrelevance of the math - and that better math is available nearby - what is going to get people to do that?
I can teach a monkey to do math.
How do you get people to save?