# JayS, AWD, Political Crew: Why do we cap SS tax? **URL:** \ **Category:** PolitiSUCK\ **Created:** [February 25, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jays-awd-political-crew-why-do-we-cap-ss-tax/43978 "2008-02-25T04:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 168
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jays-awd-political-crew-why-do-we-cap-ss-tax/43978/168 "2008-02-27T12:49:51Z")
> [@Denton](#): > > It’s not your money. It never was. It belongs to the government. I understand your confusion though. That paycheck makes it look like you earned that money you worked for. Thats because employers want you to be pissed about the government taking their share from them AND you. > Just because someone doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean they don’t understand. If it were really as simple as you wish it were we wouldn’t be debating. It is his money. Money was just civilization’s answer to the problem of trading real items. Sure, me trading the 3 chickens I raised for 3 gallons of milk worked fine at the dawn of cilvilzation, but assigning a dollar value to the product and trading dollars back and forth is much easier. The government doesn’t own the dollar any more than it owns the chicken. Government doesn’t own ANYTHING, the people do. And what Joe wants to do is take the 3 chickens I worked so hard to raise and give one to the guy who has none, because somehow his lack of chickens is my problem. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jays-awd-political-crew-why-do-we-cap-ss-tax/43978)._