apmom wrote:
Stop the cap for one thing. Deduct SS from every paycheck each year. They should have done that years ago.
We already did this for Medicare and it still isn't enough. It might add a couple of years onto Social Security, but Social Security is already pulling money from the general fund because the politicians cut 2% of FICA taxes to bribe people to vote for them. They cut the taxes and made no alternate plans for funding Social Security other than borrow more money.
Get the money out of the General Fund. That way the politicians can stop spending OUR money on their perks and wars. Those are just two ways.
That is an excellent solution, for 1986, but it is meaningless today. Both Medicare and Social Security benefits are higher than the taxes being raised from FICA taxes. There is no FICA surplus anymore and there is nothing in the Trust Funds but promises of future Congresses to raise the money to pay back those surplus funds that were used in the past.

Gore got raked over the coals for his lock box and that is exactly what has been needed.
How does the government set up a "lock box" for excess funds? Are they invested outside the government or are they invested in safe government Treasury bonds (which is what was done and just puts the money straight into the general fund to be spent).

Vice President Gore was raked over the coals for his lock box because he never answered the above questions which made his lock box nothing more than political rhetoric and not any kind of solution.

I don't expect you to agree because you are one that wants it dismantled. You want us to have to rely on less coverage and higher premiums. You want help with Rx removed so that millions of seniors have to chose between rent and food and medication that helps keep them alive. You have yours, fuck everyone else. I totally understand AZ.
This is a good example of why there is so little chance to have a civil political discussion in this country. It always devolves into personal attacks.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson