Simply raising the retirement age is a way to fix the problem. Raising the tax is also an answer. I explicitly pointed out one in the post you are sputtering about. There exists a whole array of possible solutions that do not require a larger tax, including cutting benefits, rasing the retirement age, ruling very wealthy people ineligible, changing the credits system, etc.
Obviously, some of those proposals will be more odious to some than others, and all are certain to raise the fur of some group. Nobody said it wouldn't be easy and that everyone would get what they want.
Regardless, the 'Let it be shredded or raise taxes' is a false dichotomy promulgated almost exclusively by the 'shills' of the current 'reform' plan, which really is just an excuse to destroy a perfectly workable plan that has sufficed for around 70 years.
It is odd that the injustice of taking one person's savings and nationalizing it into a fund is considered a valid plan at all
Sorry, Are you talking about the system is run currently, or the proposed 'reform' of the plan offered by the president?
Davin L.
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Why are you incapable of reading what I wrote?
The whole thread (75 posts)
- Serious Insecurities concerning Social Security 'Reform'
- My plan to reform Social Security
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- If it "over-funds" the system, just cut the tax rate. Simple. (n/t)
- The system is currently overfunded as it is
- Not if it is to become a VESTED system with assets backing liabilities.
- re: The system is currently overfunded as it is
- I could live with that.
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- Not to mention the dark secret that people are only just realizing..
- The only true fix for SS
- More to the point
- re: No big secret.
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- So the fix is to simply confiscate more and more money?
- Further, they always claim that it must get worse and worse
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Does anyone else see the political weirdness here?
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- The DNC choice to take the position that after all the years of claiming there was a crisis, now there isn't one, will not hold up. (n/t)
- again
- correction, misread something Tom said
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- What Ed said.
- Very good points
- My plan to reform Social Security