Do you or don't you benefit from the work that people older than you have done to keep the world you live in fit to live in?
We owe them more than money, but money is all we have to offer.
No one is asking the taxpayers to pay for individual palaces for retired people. Have you looked into living only on Social Security?
If you work all your life -- even if, as many of us of the female gender do, without pay in our own homes at the inconsequential job of raising children -- you ought to be able to spend the years in which you are too old to work in security and dignity without some whippersnapper asserting that you are on the dole.
Means testing? Fine. But don't even begin to suggest that the elderly are unworthy of our support. They supported us.
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- 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