"The budget, the Social Security structure, the demographics, and every other factor of Social Security is almost exactly the same now as it was when five or six years ago."
Unadulterated hogwash. Obviously incorrect. What is the average life-span today? What is the average retirement age vs 50 years ago? What are the current distribution of ages on the bell curve? Dear god, surely the kool-aid hasn't ruined you ability to do math and look at graphs!? Has it?....
Tom, thought you were talking about comparing now to the inception of the Social Security program, my bad. I would take down the rhetoric and say 'sorry!', but I would still point out that even in the last 10 years we have seen lower birth rate, higher living age and longer retirements.
Davin L.
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correction, misread something Tom said
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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