[Merrick]

So, screw the kids who eat the tariffs and will never see SS? No thanks. The last generation screwed me (us). I won’t do it to the next.

[Tell It Right]

The best way to solve the SS insolvency problem is to give us all the OPTION (key word that it'd be optional) to get out of it. If workers wanted to not pay into SS (keep the cash themselves) they could but no SS checks in their future (sans what they already put into SS). If current or future SS recipients wanted to get a cash dump of what they're due (think calculating present value of an annuity), they could. Of course, anyone who wants to maintain the status quo could.

The result? A huge cost from the taxpayers up front to pay those who opt for the lump sum (assuming that'd be more than the current amount in the overall SS fund). But how much are we talking about? Any worse than the multiple trillions in new spending for stupid stuff Congress has passed over the past 10 years? The huge up front cost would pay off whatever present or future SS recipients to cash out ... but the benefit (to the SS fund managers / taxpayers) is it would quit kicking the can down the road and prevent the Ponzi scheme from geometrically growing larger and larger every few years. Another benefit, at least to the people wise with money, is that those who invest that extra bump in their paychecks would have investments that grow way more than inflation, way better than SS benefits do. Yet another benefit, from those unwise with money, is the extra bump in their worker paychecks would be money spent on other things (stimulating the economy).

[central_va]

Tariffs will make SS solvent forever!