TheZebSobs

I keep seeing this silly talking point. Some corrections: 1. Social Security and Medicare are not means-tested. They're designed for 100% of retirees to claim benefits. 2. Rand died with an estate valued over $500k in 1982, and collected about $11k total in SS benefits. She did not need the money. 3. Rand was a successful writer and quite well off, so she was definitely a lifetime net tax payer. By just about any libertarian theory of ethics, she was fully within her rights to claim a partial refund of the money the government had taken from her. 4. Rand specifically wrote about the ethics of accepting Social Security benefits a decade before her retirement: courses.aynrand.org/works/th… Leftists want so, so badly to believe that everyone who opposes their preferred policies is a hypocrite who will someday need to rely on gibs, but it just isn't true.