Did Ayn Rand Receive Social Security Benefits?

[safeinOhio]

From Snopes...

Despite arguing that government benefits constitute an immoral redistribution of wealth, Ayn Rand received Social Security payouts later in life.

TRUE

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

[Demsrule86]

1. She sure did...a mean vicious woman by all accounts. When her longtime secretary was

asked about missing her...she replied 'she was a difficult woman'. Her ideology was based on a serial killer.

https://www.alternet.org/2015/01/how-ayn-rand-became-big-admirer-serial-killer/

https://www.learnreligions.com/ayn-rand-sociopath-who-admired-serial-killer-3975225

'What did Rand admire so much about Hickman? His sociopathic qualities: "Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should," she wrote, gushing that Hickman had "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"
This echoes almost word for word Rand's later description of her character Howard Roark, the hero of her novel The Fountainhead: "He was born without the ability to consider others." (The Fountainhead is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' favorite book -- he even requires his clerks to read it.)

[marble falls]

3. Paul Ryan did the same. The selfish git.

[former9thward]

2. SS benefits are paid for by people when they work.

If she paid into the program then she should have received those benefits. They are not a "free" government hand out.

[safeinOhio]

4. You'd think so.

She went to great lengths to hide it. Used her maiden name to collect without any one knowing.

[stopdiggin]

5. SS is almost undeniably a "redistrubution" of wealth

and thus the irony of someone with such a virulent scorn of exactly these things ....

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[SCantiGOP]

7. She had a lame half-ass excuse when confronted

The money had been stolen from her by force, so she has no moral prohibition in accepting some of it back from the thief.
She was also broke.

[former9thward]

8. I will deny it.

High income people get far more in SS benefits than low income people. How is that redistribution?

[stopdiggin]

9. you do you

but when you pay in $10 -- and take out thousands --

You can call it a monkey scratching his butt -- but Ayn Rand was fundamentally, and viciously, opposed to government programs -- including quite specifically Social Security.

Some of us like to call this irony -- or more likely, hypocrisy.
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[dpibel]

6. Thank you for defining "irony impaired"

You are a stitch.