Why do I have to pay medicare tax when I am already enrolled in medicare?

Answer 1

Everyone who works pays into the fund. Being enrolled doesn't exempt you.

Answer 2

want the real answer: ask your local CFR rep. for those out there who don't know what CFR means, Council on Foreign Relations. Or otherwise associated with Cental Bank, the American dollar due to infaltion is worth about .02 cents each dollar and well the national deficit is like 90% interest owed to big bankers. So you do the math, if we don't pay taxes like social security, medicare, or any barage of taxes we would be a real goverment and would print our own money, and have the gold to back it, but we don't and the people of this nation pay for it. Medicare is bankrupt, so is social security, along with our nation. The federal reserve is owned by private industry not our government. So essentialy we are paying an ever increasing mortgate payment on our nation to be so called free people. By the time I die the dollar will be worth a negative denomination. So don't feel bad. Just fight for what is right, tell you local congressman to vote down the federal reserve. Tell everyone you know the same thing and when it happens watch the country get better.

Answer 3

Because all earned income is subject to Medicare taxes. Short answer: It's the law.

Answer 4

Because you are still employed. If you retired and had no earned income, you wouldn't be paying Medicare.

Answer 5

More importantly, why do I have to pay Medicare when it will be bankrupt by the time I am eligible?
Just kidding...sucks huh? Cause it's the system.

Answer 6

Asking WHY the law is written the way it is written, is a recipe for insanity. 'That's how the law is written' is the only SANE answer.