There's no problem that can't be solved by tossing more rich people into the sausage machine.

As Margaret Thatcher once said, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

^the rich have been getting a free ride on that long enough.^

That is a ridiculous statement. The current SS income cap is $106,000 a year. That is taxed at 12.4 percent, or $19,840 a year. How much of that will this person get back in benefits every year? Is he getting the "free ride," or those paying far less? The imbalance will only get worse if they remove the caps and make the rates "progressive."

At least your way the delusion that Social Security is anything but another welfare program can be finally dispelled.