[EternalVigilance]

I'm continually amazed by the level of ignorance on this issue, even here on FR.

SS is NOT a 'Trust' fund...it is a pay-as-you-go transfer payment/welfare.

Politicians continue the charade, and naive Americans continue to eat it up.

First step towards solving the problem?

Means testing...

[big gray tabby]

Means testing. What a progressive solution. That I bet you can sell to the Democrats. Go crazy.

The rest of us might have a problem with paying only those who failed to save. So my neighbor with his new cars and his boat gets a SS benefit but me with my 401K does not. Freaking perfect.

Means testing--Marx would be proud.

[need_a_screen_name]

"First step towards solving the problem?

Means testing..."




Bingo! A good first step.

[utahagen]

I would support means testing with regard to determining the age at which specific people can start collecting benefits, say, some at 65, versus others at 67. What would be outrageous would be if means testing meant some people who had contributed to social security their whole working lives were deemed too rich EVER to collect, which is what the Dems usually mean by "means testing".