Ron Paul takes Social Security?

[Aristophan3s]

A line for a stand 4 munee!~!!~!

[Wheylous]

Have we considered that libertarians can’t get anything done becasue we’re ADD?

[John_James]

who’s that in your avatar?

[Torsten]

Have we considered that libertarians can’t get anything done becasue we’re ADD?

What do you mean?

[Autolykos]

@John James

No, Ron Paul did not return his salary. He has never stated or even implied that a memeber of Congress should be an unpaid volunteer. He has however returned a portion of his Congressional budget to the Treasury every year, and does not participate in/ will not take the lucrative Congressional pension plan.

A belated thanks for that information, John.

I don’t think Ron Paul is inconsistent for receiving Social Security benefits per se. As long as he’s not a net tax-consumer, I have no problem with it. Furthermore, the same amount of FICA taxes are withdrawn from people’s paychecks regardless of how many people are currently receiving Social Security benefits. Any money taken in FICA taxes that isn’t used to pay current benefits is instead used to purchase federal government debt.