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by maxerickson 3668 days ago
Social security has an awful lot in common with a federal mandatory pension. If anything, it would probably be easier to opt out of a pension system (where pension implies that the individual benefit is more fully funded by the individual payments).

People that can show they are making payments into a similar program elsewhere often don't have to make social security payments.

https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreements_overview.html