[sickoflibs]

I guess more of your SS benefits would go to No Child Left Behind and Hillary/Obama fee Health Care (for illegals) unless you kept working and paying taxes on job salary for same purpose.

I hated it when Reagan and Clinton raised income taxes on social security benefits to pay for the general budget, It's no better than the phony I OWE YOUs they wrote themselves while spending the SS taxes. Notice they wont call for just cutting the benefits, that would show it's just a welfare ripoff scheme. By taxing SS benefits the people who paid no income taxes (but paid minimum SS taxes ) dont get a cut in SS benefits because they make under the income limit once gain.

[fightinbluhen51]

Not surprised that it comes from that rag the Baltimore Sun, but here’s an idea...

SUCK A LEMON!

[American Quilter]

But there's just something - make that lots of things - wrong, in general, with retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic.

Take a flying leap off the nearest skyscraper, Yarrow. I'm retiring the day I turn 62, and I'd retire sooner if your beloved liberals weren't stealing so much of my income. You are not entitled to my labor, and I am not morally obligated to work to support your socialist nanny state.

[JmyBryan]

I plan on working as long as someone will pay me.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’ll tell you what, Andy, you work until you fall over dead from old age, while I retire and cruise around the country in my geezer RV.

[from occupied ga]

Andrew L. Yarrow

Seems to think the problem with government is not enough revenue.
WRONG!! It's too much spending. Bush and his liberal Republican cronies have been spending our, our childrens' money and their subsequent generations' money at a rate that would embarrass Bill Clinton.

[Graybeard58]

retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic.

Thank goodness that doesn't include me, I retired at 54.

[stylin19a]

yikes...get a load of the lefties associated with “Public Agenda “

http://www.publicagenda.org/aboutpa/aboutpa_whoswho.cfm

[CDHart]

This government has taken thousands of dollars from my husband and myself by force of law. I plan to retire at 65 and get some of it back. I told this idiot columnist the same thing.

Carolyn

[paul51]

Yeah, people should work longer so they can pay more taxes to help fund other people. If someone decides they can retire at 30 and they don’t expect anybody else to support them, what business is it of mine?

[17th Miss Regt]

This alone would cut the projected deficit in 2045 by 159 percent.

Another mathematical illiterate with a journalism degree.

[Humvee]

Apparently he doesn’t understand how many days a year we all work for the government. Its into May now isn’t it? I just retired in January at age 62 and I have one response for this idiot - BMA!!!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“To encourage such behavior, Social Security benefits taken before age 66 or 70 could be more highly taxed,”....

Kiss my rosy red ass!....Who were the village idiots who got us into this mess?....Maybe the politicians who got us here should all get 9 to 5 jobs til they turn 90!

[joe fonebone]

this guy is a socialist moron...just because I started saving for retirement when i was 21, and put together enough money to retire at 52, I am unpatriotic!!!!!!!! This guy can Bl@w me big time......

[Hoffer Rand]

The next step is euthanasia of the elderly. “It is selfish and unpatriotic to consume government funds, when they could be going to children or health care or [fill in the blank]. You are no longer productive, and it's unpatriotic to consume more than you produce. (cough-unless you're one of a number of special minority groups, then it's expected you won't produce, as you're a victim-cough)”

One small step, folks...

[gondramB]

So we should more and longer to pay more taxes... yeah, that’s incentive. /s

[Joe Boucher]

I retired 3 years ago next week and am only upset because I wanted to do so by the time I reached 50 and it took til I was 52.
Why work more if I don’t need the money?
I ride my Harley, Fly my plane, fish and play on my boat, and travel.
I don’t take anything from the govt even though they still take from me. and I don’t bother anyone.
I worked hard and am now just enjoying and doing anything I want.
Raise my taxes? Fine. Guess I’ll go scuba diving.
Life’s real nice.

[rabscuttle385]

To encourage such behavior, Social Security benefits taken before age 66 or 70 could be more highly taxed, and employee rates of Social Security taxation could be progressively reduced for each year worked after 66 or 70. Or the government could provide a similar sliding tax credit for Americans who continue working beyond age 70.

Aw, shucks. Why can't the liberals be straight with us, skip the foreplay, and go straight to the full-blown command economy?

Oh wait, I forgot, people would actually throw them out if that happened.

[DumpsterDiver]

When I hear my fellow baby boomers gleefully talk about their elaborate plans to retire ASAP,

I am not a baby boomer.

But there's just something - make that lots of things - wrong, in general, with retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic.

This guy would hate my guts if he found out I retired when I was 46.

For individuals, working longer can mean more income and savings

Filthy lucre!

...if millions of us worked until 67 instead of 62 [...] That added income would provide about $800 billion in additional tax revenues,

I do not wish to contribute money to finance programs I find disgusting.

[KarlInOhio]

For individuals, working longer can mean more income and savings and something to bequeath to one's children.

Any bets on whether the author supports high death taxes so most of that bequeathing is actually to the government?

[Phantom Lord]

When you are retired, everyday is Saturday. And you know its Sunday because the paper is thick.