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To: Blood of Tyrants
There are only two solutions. Raise the SS tax or cut benefits.

There is a third. Raise the retirement age.

7 posted on 05/12/2015 9:22:19 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: TheCipher

Great guys that nail shingles on roofs can work until 70.


8 posted on 05/12/2015 9:24:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TheCipher
And a fourth:


10 posted on 05/12/2015 9:26:46 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means.....)
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To: TheCipher

I would consider that a cut in benefits.


11 posted on 05/12/2015 9:27:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: TheCipher
There are only two solutions. Raise the SS tax or cut benefits. There is a third. Raise the retirement age.

There's a fourth, privatize the system moving forward. The increases in returns for younger people will allow for less contributions with the excess going to fund the remaining people in the sytem for the next few decades.

12 posted on 05/12/2015 9:27:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: TheCipher

Sure, but I think that to solve the problem by only raising the age, we’d have to raise to a ridiculous amount.


22 posted on 05/12/2015 10:31:08 AM PDT by Boogieman
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