{"id":83927,"date":"2025-08-15T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83927\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:54:10","slug":"you-earned-your-social-security-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83927\/","title":{"rendered":"You earned your Social Security benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans have been wanting to cut entitlement programs for a long time. Entitlement programs like Social Security. But\u2026\u00a0how is it an entitlement if they took money out of your paycheck for it while you worked?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of Republicans\u2019 favorite techniques of deception: misname things so as to mislead people as to their nature. If enough American taxpayers forget that they paid into Social Security, maybe they won\u2019t mind if Social Security is eliminated\u00a0to fund tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

Not so fast, says AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons). They have an ad that I saw on NBC this morning. I couldn\u2019t find it on AARP\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>, but this longer (minute and a half) video makes the same point: you paid into Social Security and it\u2019s owed to you when you retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republicans have been wanting to cut entitlement programs for a long time. Entitlement programs like Social Security. But\u2026\u00a0how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-83927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}