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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IDGAF about alimony and for how long, but the social security payout for the non-working spouse needs to stop. I don't want to work and support someone who never did. [/quote]

So you're more concerned about the one that doesn't come out of your pocket than the one that does? 🤔[/quote]

Do you not understand how taxes work? As a higher earner, I pay taxes to support other people’s services.

Spousal social security is especially egregious. The entire SS is premised on people paying in what they get out. The exception is spousal benefits who pay in zero.  For an example, a lower income couple both working $40k would both get social security based on their individual contributions. So each would get probably $1000 a month in retirement.  Which matches what each, individually, paid in. Meanwhile a guy with a sahw makes $80k, and over his career pays into SS the same amount that the other couple paid combined.  When he retires, he gets $2000 a month (because he paid double what either of the people in the couple did), but his wife is entitled to the 50 percent spousal benefit. So gets another $1000. In short, first couple makes $80k and pays SS on that, and gets $2000.  Second couple makes $80k and pays SS on that, and gets $3000.  Who do you think pays for the non contributing wife’s extra $1000? We all do. It is literally welfare, paying her not to work. And offensive that a poor woman making $40k for an entire career gets the same payout as one who never worked a day in her life. Made sense in 1940 when women had no opportunity to work and died in poverty if their husbands didn’t have pensions. But now serves just as a cash outlay to UMC sahws.

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