[Twotone]

SS was a bad idea to begin with. It’s been made worse over the years & is now a critical problem for the country, budget-wise. It’s a pity more people don’t understand that.

[muawiyah]

What I understand is this ~ if you simply paid back all the Social Security funds taken from living employees and retirees, and said, bye bye no more benefits, you'd need to borrow over $6 trillion from somewhere to pay them back money they'd paid in.

Social Security isn't a budget problem ~ the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is a budget problem ~ they spend too much.

The solution isn't to whack Social Security, or raise taxes on the poor, or the middle-class, or the rich ~ the solution is to CUT SPENDING.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “SS was a bad idea to begin with.” <<

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Having a federal overnment was a bad idea to begin with. They should have just stuck with a treaty confederation.