From the “I know I’ve heard this somewhere before” department:

Author Jerry Pournelle:

I discovered to my horror just how much the Feds tax retirement including Social Security! Having collected taxes for my lifetime -- including to this day -- on self-employment to pay into the Social Security account, they hand me a miserable pittance compared to what I would have got had I simply put the money into a money market account; then they tax part of it away.

Somebody get him Paul Ryan’s phone number!

Hat tip Instapundit