[steve50]

I hate to say this, but I know of many seniors who abose the medicare program and go to the doctors like you and I go to the bathroom.

Most of these elderly paid some of the highest tax rates this nation has ever seen on the promise that these programs would be there for them in there old age. It's not their fault the government wasted the money charged to provide them. Spent mostly on feel good programs the younger generation demanded.

[chris1]

Not even close, the marginal rate was high, but so few ever paid that. In real dollars, in doesn't even amount to a drop in the bucket. Someone who is 75 and been collecting for 10 years did not even pay close to a fraction of the amount he or she has taken out. Not even close.