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Next year will be the retirement year for Uncle John. He’s been toiling in one Flint GM factory or another for 35-plus years, and he’s about done with it. Work— tinkering with cars, boats, and home remodeling tasks— can still give him a charge, but crawling out of bed every weekday morning at 5 to slap together torque converters wears on him. He’d rather spend time hunting and fishing, and also with his grand-kids.
John is pretty young for retirement. He’s in excellent shape— SAY NO TO Alcohol and Cigarettes and he’s able to carry his 150lb outboard trolling motor down a flight of stairs into his basement every winter’s eve for storage. He’s paid into the Social Security pensions system since he was a teenager, when payroll taxes were 6%. Most of that money went straight to retirees drawing direct benefits at the time. Today, payroll taxes are 12.4%, a partial reflection of a trust fund set up in 1983, so John’s kids and grand-kids, and nephews, wouldn’t have to worry about their Social Security later on. Just like John isn’t one to worry.
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