YOU SAID, "But if this is what it takes to get sixty votes for Social Security reform and personal accounts, I'm not averse to doing it."
Also, if you are allowed to direct a portion your total “contribution” (don’t you just love that word) to your own personal account – then at least some of the actual tax increase will be funneled into your own account.
It is not exactly what I would want, but sometimes governance is the “art of the possible – not the perfect.”
I agree. Reluctantly so, but I agree.
It's now our turn to practice "incrementalism". But, instead of "creeping socialism", we'll pursue a course of "creeping capitalism".
And, eventually, everybody will be better off -- except the lefties consumed by their own hatred.