CPI is already one of the most heavily cooked numbers on the planet, and the Republicans say they want to tweak it to cook the numbers even more, resulting in less SS for people who spent their lives paying into it.
But you may be in the camp that considers SS “welfare.”
Social security didn’t start out as a welfare program but it has been moving in that direction over the years. The system cannot sustain the millions of people claiming disability who paid little or nothing into the system but will collect a lifetime of benefits. It is also not sustainable when the average person collects 4X as much as they pay into the plan. These problems will only grow bigger as our workforce continues to shrink from obama-nomics and the pool of retirees grows from baby boomers retiring. I don’t want anybody to get less then what they are entitled to but something has to change.
it is no different than any other government payments to individuals. ‘Paid into...’ the general fund like everything else. How long have you paid into food stamps? or Planned Parenthood?
it is no different than any other government payments to individuals. ‘Paid into...’ the general fund like everything else. How long have you paid into food stamps? or Planned Parenthood?